Zed with Rakan
How to Synergize Zed and Rakan
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Zed Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Zed with Rakan
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.
Advice to Understand How Rakan Will Play
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.
Zed Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Zed in LoL
The Zed Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rakan helps Zed perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is paired with Rakan, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Rakan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Rakan is a very typical teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Zed and Rakan that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Zed players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Zed and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your side much engage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to work well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Zed and Rakan synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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