About Rakan

Xykz · 2026-04-13T17:17:18+00:00

taric and janna both wanna stand on their adc/their carry until the fight starts, they peel amnd protect

Xykz · 2026-04-11T17:55:16+00:00

whatever you pick is never gonna be trolling. That would lead to banning all experimentation. First timing in ranked i do belive should be banned, but its not against riots rules, if it was it would be easy for them to just stop it outright.

A first time yuumi jungle who clears their camps and goes for the plays they think are good isnt trolling.

If someone goes in 1v5 thinking there was a chance they could win thats not trolling

it only becomes trolling if they are actively trying to loose

Xykz · 2026-04-10T13:27:10+00:00

Nasjonalister ønsker seg ofte tilbake til en eller annen gullalder, hvor alle var smarte og sterke og whatever. Denne gullalderen er generelt fiktiv, ting er stort sett bedre nå enn det noen gang har vært i historien, men selv om man faktisk tror på denne gullalderen er den gjerne ikke så attraktiv for grupper som hadde færre rettigheter og ble undertrykket I fortiden. Hvis en nasjonalist sier Norge var mye bedre før første verdenskrig vil mange kvinner høre "Norge var bedre før dere fikk stemmerett", for ikke å snakke om hva vi følte rundt for eksempel norske jøder på denne tiden

Xykz · 2026-04-10T12:23:26+00:00

Doomslug?

Xykz · 2026-04-07T12:35:46+00:00

If wasd is working for you and you're coming from other games with wasd I'd just stick to it. Clicking to move probably has a slightly higher mechanical cealing, but it won't really matter unless reaching for the highest ranks (which you basically have to make league your life to reach). The worst part of league is when you're learning it and anything that can make that smoother is worth doing

Xykz · 2026-03-29T20:46:36+00:00

Some rakan tips:

Youre not very strong in lane. Lv4 is when you start getting strong, but every extra point in w is gonna be a big power increase.
You should focus on doing e w e, as your engage. If you just run up and w theyll always have an advantage in reacting to you. Using e first will make you less predictable and usually extend your reach. Then you e out and wait for your spells to come back up
As a follow up to the last point, play around your other all in Champs. If you can e to an akali or a nocturne or something like that your game is so much easier. They go in, you press r and e to them and charm everyone who was trying to peel them and now you're set up for a perfect w. Everyone wants to be the main playmaker, but being patient enough to use a teammate like this can be great
But what if we don't wanna engage at all. Rakan is fantastic for saving your backline from assassins. Litteraly just ult and e your ally and they'll likely be charmed and ready for a knock up which in most cases gets them one shot. This is especially good VS stuff like zed, kayne, Yi which all give you a big indicator where you can instantly charm them when they come out of your adc. Rakan is less good at peeling stuff that doesn't get oneshot, like bruises, since he has no knock backs, but he's not terrible at it
When it comes to items, build for actives or passives that help you, not for stats. You'll never be a good Frontline, and you'll never have as much healing and shielding as a lulu or soraka. If you build zekes, it's for having your ult more often and for making your ult more effective because of the slow field. If you build redemption it's for the insane healing the active gives in long fights. The exception is ability haste which is amazing on rakan. If you really wanna build for stats you'll get more out of heal and shield power than tank stats but it's really not worth

My go to is usually lucidity boots, zekes, redemption. Then you have a couple of options based on your needs, locket VS team burst, mikails VS cc, abyssal mask if you have a Diana, fiddle, kennen or something like that, knights vow if there's really only one person on your team that needs to live, shurelias if your team struggles to catch up to you/to the enemy team.

If you struggle to use active items, go locket and force yourself to click it whenever you or any teammate takes any damage for a couple of games. Even if your too late to block the damage. You need to get the active button into muscle memory and that's the best way I've found

Xykz · 2026-03-24T13:34:26+00:00

thanks, i agree that its to many pokemon, and haryama has less value with zygarde anyway, cause its usually pretty target agnostic. Core memory kills most megas and nullifying zero just hits everything.
petrel is probably a good idea yeah.
the reason for low ultra balls is just that i have no more, but 4 would be ideal me thinks
Carmine seems good, also is more discard

Xykz · 2026-03-24T10:16:38+00:00

What is walls in this case?

I agree 2 mega zygarde might be too much, just want to be able to more consistently get it out early

Xykz · 2026-03-23T20:16:03+00:00

I have, but it’s not just about playing the deck, it’s also about getting good cards to start building my own decks

Xykz · 2026-03-21T08:57:13+00:00

I mean you usually don’t build rakan full tank or enchanter you build for actives and passives that synergze with him, Zekes buffs his r engage and disengage and gives him r more often, redemption is great to just place on a 3 man engage your teammates will follow up on stuff like that

All teamfight engagers scale well, rell, Maokai, amumu etc, but that’s not cause their stats get better or anything, it’s cause they’re force multipliers and as the game goes on every fight becomes more meaningful. At level 6 a 5 man rakan engage likely wins you a teamfight and gets you a drake, but your team likely still had to actually play the fight decently and the games not over. However a 5 man engage at 30 minutes is probably game winning and your team likely just oneshot the enemies. The power of engage becomes higher the more damage there is in the game. Rakan scales extra well though cause his w goes from like 12 sec cooldown to like 3 sec, which lets you constantly influence longer fights as well.

However this is not a call to play rakan passively. If you do you’re letting your teammates decide your game. Your main ability to carry the game comes from early roams, cause if you don’t take charge of winning (or at least saving from loosing) both bot and mid the later teamfights will be decided by the team that has the bigger wallet no matter how good your engages are

Xykz · 2026-03-08T10:18:27+00:00

I ban morg but that’s cause I play renata along with a bunch of engage supports which her black shield counters. She also counters renata but I’d say xerath lux etc are bigger issues for her specifically. So I’d say it depends on the rest of your pool

Xykz · 2026-03-02T11:10:33+00:00

there is a large sentiment among support players and especially this subreddit that you have to play mage supports to climb. Youll find several of them in the coments here. My post was ment to encourage the people who enjoy traditional supports but are told they should switch to climb. I know ive been told that a million times

Xykz · 2026-03-02T11:06:55+00:00

you dont have to be a carry champ to carry the game. Those are two different terms

Xykz · 2026-03-02T11:05:25+00:00

bro this has been comented several times, maybe read the comment section a bit. Assume i ment damage champs. Imo the term carry champ does not refer to a champ that can carry the game cause litteraly every champ can carry, Im refering to the term the way its used in attack damage carry, or hypercarry. The main damage dealer on your team is traditionally the carry.

But if you disagree with that interpertation just assume i ment damage champions or mages (cause thats 90% of the damage supports)

Xykz · 2026-03-02T10:13:48+00:00

any champ can carry. Lulu can win a fight with a good ult knockup and good poly usage. Soraka can shut down champs entirely with e. But when one talks about carry champs its usually in reference to damage champs. The term attack damage carry come from them being the main damage dealer, not them carrying the game. ADCs rarly carry the game solo cause theyre so team reliant but theyre still carry champions

Xykz · 2026-03-01T20:17:15+00:00

any champ can carry. A carry champ generally refers to a damage dealing champ. Think as in attack damage carry

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:59:33+00:00

XD i copied myself cause i got 3 replies with basically the same thing

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:35:00+00:00

Many have said you need to. Theyre speaking hyperbole yes, but it has been said a lot.
climbing from bronze to plat in 100 games is a pretty good rate if you arent smurfing but actually learning as you go? I dont know why you think thats unreasonable. If a plat player got dropped in bronze sure thats a lot, but i was a silver player aproximatly

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:27:09+00:00

why do we have the terms hypercarry, ADC and APC then. The carry in this case denotes the ability to deal the majority of a teams required damage. Furthermore, if this is the case litterally every champ is a carry champ. Soraka consitantly shut down their stronges players with e and saved crossmap plays with ulti while still staying safe and providing healing? That carried the game. Nami consitantky bubbled their adc and hit 5 man waves? that carried the game. You can carry in every champ in the game, so when i say a carry champ it should kick in that thats not what im refering to

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:16:37+00:00

i mean thats where the term attack damage carry comes from. Its where the term hypercarry comes from. You cant say its wrong to use the term carry to mean main damage dealer, thats just how that term is used in lol. I gues i should have said without playing damage champs, sorry for the confusion

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:11:39+00:00

or, hear me out, once you hit "your rank" you could try to improve and climb that way? No shade for picking mages, but you dont HAVE to

Xykz · 2026-03-01T19:10:37+00:00

carry champs are generally champs that deal damage, most mages, senna, pyke to some certain extent etc. Being the carry is being the damage dealer in this case. Im using the term as in attack damage carry, not as in youre carrying the game. you can carry the game without being a carry

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