Rakan with Zed
How to Synergize Rakan and Zed
based on 3,646 Rakan with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Zed Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Zed
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Zed
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Rakan Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Rakan perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Zed, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Zed on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Rakan in team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Zed
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Zed is a not very good teammate for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 48.8%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Rakan and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players must be very careful when finding Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Rakan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Rakan and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team very much engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to synergize with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Rakan and Zed synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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