To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
The Syndra Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Syndra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Syndra perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Syndra tries to synergize with Rakan, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Rakan supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Rakan.
Additionally, when Syndra plays with Rakan on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Syndra during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Syndra that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Rakan is a pretty good teammate for Syndra. By being on the same team as Syndra, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Syndra and Rakan that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Syndra. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Syndra players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Syndra and Rakan together, you may not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to work well with Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Syndra and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Syndra players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Rakan with Syndra are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.