The worst part about these new two champions synergies
Is that you have to balance without leaving them feeling like absolute shit without their synergy champion.
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Lol, im confused. The only real synnergy they have is the recall, rakan gets a larger range on his shield and xayah gets to give rakan her increases AA speed + damage. Other than that they are like any other adc and support. Nerfing one will have no real effect on the other because the champions are not designed to exclusively play with eachother. It's like chocolate dipped strawberries. On their own, strawberries and chocolate are good and are not defined by the other, together they taste really good.
The only thing that will affect their "synergy" would be changing the range on rakan's e, or changing the AA modifier on xayah's w, and at that point it's just balance changes to that specific champ, it has next to zero impact on the other champ as a unit itself
Rakan is still strong without Xayah if the ADC is not brainded.
The issue is if you make them both work individually have average strength, they become too strong when played together. And if together they have average strength, they become too weak when played alone.
This is one of the worse ways to design champions balance wise.