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Rakan
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Find a multi-man charm with during mid-game objective fights. Your goal is to lock down the highest damage threat so your team can burst them before they can react.
Playstyle
High-mobility engage/enchanter hybrid. You are the ultimate playmaker who dives into the enemy team to cause chaos and zips back to safety before they can react.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Unmatched mobility with and double-cast
- +Point-blank AOE charm from guarantees follow-up CC
- +Passive shield allows for incredibly safe short trades
- +Excellent peel and sustain for carries during extended fights
Weaknesses
- -Extremely squishy if caught without available
- -Long early cooldowns on leave you vulnerable for 18+ seconds
- -Heavily countered by 'grounding' effects (Poppy, Taliyah, Cassiopeia)
- -Requires high synergy; if your team doesn't follow your engage, you die
Abilities
A free regenerating shield. Only trade when is up. Hitting enemies with abilities reduces this cooldown—be aggressive to get more shields.
Your sustain tool. If it hits a champ, a circle forms around you. Walk into an ally to heal them. Don't use this for damage; use it to keep your ADC healthy in poke lanes.
Your primary engage. It has a brief delay before the knockup. Aim slightly behind enemies to catch them as they walk away. Can be used over walls for surprise ganks.
A dash to an ally that grants a shield. It can be cast twice within a few seconds. Use the first cast to get in range for a play, and the second cast to escape back to your backline.
Massive move speed and a charm on touch. Do not just run in circles; use the speed to touch as many enemies as possible, then immediately follow up with while they are charmed.
Teamfight Role
Primary Disruptor/Engager
Look for flanks. Use to zoom through the enemy team and charm the ADC/Mid, then them together. Once your CC is spent, back to your carry and use to keep them alive.
If the enemy has a fed assassin (like Zed or Rengar), stay on top of your ADC and use your CC purely for peeling instead of engaging.
Combos
The Bread and Butter
→ → back to ally
Standard lane trade. Knock them up, tag them with Q for the heal, and dash back to your ADC before the enemy can trade back.
The Un-dodgeable Engage
→ → →
Pop first to get the move speed. Touch them to charm (locking them in place), then is guaranteed to hit because they can't flash while charmed.
Long Range Sniper
to frontline ally → → Flash →
Use an ally as a springboard with to cover massive ground. Flash while in to surprise the backline, then knock them up.
The Peeler
to carry → → on the diver
When an assassin jumps your ADC, dash to them with , charm the assassin with , and follow with for maximum lockdown.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | is one of the best level 1 CC tools for invades or catching an overextended ADC. |
| Level 3 | You have your full rotation. You can finally engage with and safely return with . |
| Level 6 | turns you into a teamfight monster. Your kill pressure in lane doubles. |
| Level 11 | Second point in and lower cooldowns on let you force fights more frequently. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can cast and during the dash of or .
- • range is significantly larger when jumping to a Xayah.
- •Your charm duration is long enough to wait a split second before using to maximize total CC time.
- •The heal from procs even if you hit an Epic Monster like Dragon or Baron.
- •Use movespeed just to dodge skillshots if you're being chased; you don't always have to go for a charm.
- •If you to an ally and they Flash mid-dash, you will follow them to their new location.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using without an ally in range of →You have no way to get out and will be focused and killed instantly.
- ✕Using before in a teamfight→Enemies can Flash or dash away from the circle. Charmed enemies cannot.
- ✕Spamming for poke→You go out of mana quickly and the damage is negligible. Save it for the heal.
- ✕Forgetting to auto-attack→In early 2v2s, your autos actually do decent damage. Don't just run away after using abilities.
- ✕Initiating with on cooldown→You lack the 'effective HP' to survive the initial burst when you dive in.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached