Champion Guide

Rakan Guide

By LoLSuggest

Support

Rakan is a mobile disruptor who thrives in chaos: gain brush control early, look for level 2 engages, roam when your ADC is safe, and in teamfights follow up your main engager — usually the jungler — by charming and knocking up several enemies. He creates huge value but can't carry alone.

Recommended Setup

Our recommended Rakan build

Our recommended runes, summoner spells and items. Compare build win rates on the stats page.

Items

Starting Items

Core Items

Situational Items

The best page for 26.19 is Guardian with Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching, plus Deep Ward and Ultimate Hunter; Electrocute and Unsealed Spellbook pages are alternatives. Take Flash with Heal, Ignite against healing or squishies, or Exhaust against all-ins. Start World Atlas and upgrade to Celestial Opposition (or Solstice Sleigh); we also recommend an early Dark Seal on your first back. The core is Ionian Boots, Zeke's Convergence and Locket of the Iron Solari, then Knight's Vow, Bandlepipes, Shurelya's Battlesong, Mikael's Blessing or Imperial Mandate. AP and enchanter variants with Hextech Rocketbelt or Echoes of Helia are also listed.

Runes

Primary Tree

Secondary Tree

Summoner Spells

Strengths

Extremely high mobility to engage, escape, set up plays and roam.
Amazing engage potential, especially with Flash.
Versatile, with some peel, tankiness and utility — plus good AP scaling.

Weaknesses

Can't solo carry; he relies on teammates following up.
Very high cooldowns and low damage on his own.
Supports that interrupt dashes — Poppy, Janna, Morgana or Renata — shut him down.

Laning Phase

You're weak early, so take brush control and count minions to spot level 2 engages with W and E or Q and W. After winning a trade and crashing the wave, ward the river or enemy jungle. Otherwise play safe, threaten from brush and punish the ADC when they last-hit or waste abilities. Buy Oracle Lens after your first recall. As a melee support you have very long auto range, so abuse it against other melee supports.

Mid & Late Game

After 6, Rakan is a massive counter-engager: engage first only with Flash, when the enemy makes a mistake or lacks mobility. Roam when your ADC is safe — gank mid when its laner pushes, help with Grubs or ward deep. In teamfights, follow your main engager and charm and knock up as many enemies as possible; when behind, hold your abilities to disengage.

Key Tips

Short trade: W the target, auto plus Q, then E back to an ally.
Full engage: R out of vision, E to an ally, Flash if needed, W, auto–Q–auto, then E out.
You can cast R during E's travel to disguise it.
Pair him with scaling ADCs like Xayah, Aphelios, Twitch or Zeri.

Matchups

Matchups and synergies

Our picks for difficult opponents, favorable lanes and strong allies. Compare matchup win rates on the stats page.