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Recommended Items
Runes: Tank top
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Resolve
Sorcery
+10% Attack Speed
+6 Armor
+65 Base Health
Spells:
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Suggested top
Ghost
Teleport
Items
Ability Order Standard
Fey Feathers (PASSIVE)
Rakan Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Camille
Broken, try to not lose too hard and play for teamfights. Dodge her stun with W.
Yasuo
Your W, his R, the enemy is gone
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Yasuo
Your W, his R, the enemy is gone
Champion Build Guide
What is this guide
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Hi! This is my first guide and I plan on showcasing some interesting and weird Rakan builds, I'm a Gold player, peaked at Gold 2 but don't grind ranked much, mainly cause I don't like chasing the meta and just want to play fun and weird champs/builds (or maybe I'm just bad :P). I play mostly support and top and have been a ![]() ![]() ![]() Strangely enough, support is the role I like the least for Rakan and so I've found myself crafting a bunch of different off-meta builds, taking inspirations from high elo corean players and other guides here on Mobafire, I experimented in theory and practice on how different builds would work on Rakan. |
Why Rakan
![]() Although his only scalings are AP (very good ones at that, specially after patch 13.3, hopefully they don't make him giga broken), he can work well as tank too thanks to his kit having a lot of utility in the form of amazing engage, mobility and a decent amount of healing and shielding. As a little sad reminder tho, remember these builds are all pretty off-meta, so although they're high on the fun chart, they're definitely not good for sweating in ranked so have fun with them in Draft and Flex with friends but only use them in solo duo when you get reeeal comfy with Rakan and his limits. |
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About the Top Builds
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Rakan top can be very fun but also very frustrating, depending on the matchup, unfortunately top is plagued by broken and very oppressive champs such as Jax, Fiora, Camille, Darius, GP etc. making him a risky first pick. With that being said ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early game, unless you're permashoved under tower, you can quickly join your jungler to secure scuttle and perhaps get a kill, same goes for invades, either the enemies or your jungler's, Rakan can always join the fray either before or at the same time as the enemy laner. This is also why I choose ![]() ![]() ![]() On this note, let's take a second to talk about the runes: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
For the secondary tree I go Sorcery with





For flex runes I almost always go for Attack Speed and double Armor or MR, depending on enemy laner and overall comp.
Laning phase for top can be pretty aggressive, since usually you will outrange other melee champions and are able to proc grasp a lot of times, in the early levels you even have some kill power for potential solo bolos, but your true strength relies on tower cheese and gank setups, as soon as you hit level six all it takes is for the enemy laner to make one small mistake under your tower and by comboing with W and R you can make sure the tower (or your jungler) will take care of him.
After your tower falls (unfortunately it's almost a given unless you get strong sided by your jungler) you want to start roaming and getting your teammates ahead, just rarely stopping to farm. You don't have much kill power nor amazing split pushing (although it's decent since you can usually get away with R even if the enemy team collapses on you) so your best bet is to count on your teammates, you can make plays happen but unfortunately you have to rely on your teammates to follow up and do decent, which is why this build is better suited for higher ranks (not silver/bronze basically) and probably better to not bring in ranked altogether unless you get last pick and think it's a good fit.
My rating is 8 off-meta Rakans out of 10.
About the Mid Builds
Mid builds are AP all the way baby, there's many guides you can reference for full AP Rakan mid so I won't get too in depth, the only difference about my build is that I'm focusing on maximising damage by stacking magic penetration, I've experimented with a lot of different builds and found out that to deal the most burst damage against non MR equipped targets flat pen is the best stat (with as much ap as possible of course); since almost every champ has around 50 mr (around level 13-14) by just having ![]() ![]() ![]() Against tankier enemies that stack mr the better choice would be ![]() As a rule of thumb ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem with this build is that both shadowflame and morello have no ability haste, I make up for this by having ![]() If you get ahead, this build is a blast, run into teamfights and blow everyone up or one shot some squishy adc. If you fall behind you can still go ![]() 10 off-meta Rakans out of 10, after patch 13.3 AP buffs might even become meta who knows. |
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About the Supp builds
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Like AP Rakan mid, AP Rakan supp is already very well documented, my only addition is, same as mid, the use of ability haste runes with ![]() ![]() Another good rune that I don't see many AP Rakan builds using is ![]() ![]() Not only you will have a lot of damage with this build, being able to almost one shot the enemy adc if you're ahead, but you also get a massive shield on passive ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also use the Q healing on baron and drake to keep your team at full health for an eventual enemy engage. Very fun! Use your early damage to cheese some early kills and try to snowball, kinda ****py if you fall behind, but ![]() 9 off-meta Rakans out of 10. |
About the forbidden Hybrid Tank/AP Build
This is another fun build, very weird but very powerful, it takes inspiration from hwipham's guide on Rod of Ages Rakan and repurposes it for Top lane. Using almost identical runes to the "regular" Top build, the biggest change is having ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Early game is a little rough since RoA takes a while to build and another while to stack up, so contrary to the other Top build, where the ![]() ![]() ![]() Other useful items are ![]() ![]() Another good item is ![]() ![]() ![]() Although not easy to achieve, the moment you close these 4 items rakan transforms into an hyper mobile AP bruiser, being able to take a large beating and still get out of jail free thanks to R and W's low cooldown. |
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If you manage to get ahead enough to get RoA, Sunfire and Spirit Visage, a good strat with this build is to side lane a lot; since you're really tanky you can keep the pressure up against 1 or 2 enemies and if the rest collapse on you you can just R W your way out of there, wasting a lot of the enemies time and allowing your team to pressure other parts of the map/take objectives.
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Still early in development but this build is a ton of fun when it works, potentially being another 10 out of 10 off-meta Rakans.
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