Literally WTF are Rakan's AP ratios!?

Lol He has HIGH cooldowns

Don't worry though. Riot just wants them to be played as a duo a few times on pro and casual scene before they bring oit the nerf stick.

I got a feeling that they will be a mord

His offensive ratios are all 50%, so it is purely defensive at least. Plus he'd still build Redemption and Locket because they are way more reliable and hit the whole team. His Q heal may as well only hit one ally, and his E can at most get 2 allies. His passive is only on himself, and it's not like he's a damage threat.

Also because he's going to build redemption and locket, he won't get much ap until late in the game, so the AP ratios won't matter as much.

It's the same reason has high ratios.

It's so that the ratios feel impactful with the little bit of AP he DOES get.

200 AP +40% bonus shielding and he will shield for 500

meanwhile janna

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His heal has a 70% AP ratio.

His shield on E? 80%.

His passive!? FUCKING NINETY

Worst part? No one's gonna use them

says hi. It's a wonder he isn't built full AP all the time - oh wait, it's because he doesn't have to, and has plenty of damage with

Yeah Riot has been doing some weird shit lately. I'm scared to see the tank rework happen - the item rework seems a failure too, that Banshees/Abyssal? And already on their 3rd version of Randuins... for just this patch.

I tried him on PBE and with some AP I could take like 3 turret shots before my shield was gone. Pretty strong self shield.

they wanted to encourage you to build as much AP as you could get away with rather than only building super tanky, so that his playstyle feels more dangerous.

I've played Rakan on PBE.

He deals very low damage - the cooldowns and mana cost are significant to his abilities. His Q doesn't heal immediately, and it isn't for a good amount at first. His ult damage is actually a joke considering it applies once along with the charm and is more of a distraction than any damage. His W is basically a slow Galio E mixed with Q, and frankly his passive means very little early to mid game when he's going to be taking too much damage to refresh anything. By himself he's nearly useless, he does require an ADC (Xayah or anybody else) because on his own he'd get crushed early game before he could build anything.

Xayah's not too powerful either, her movement speed is VERY low and she has no gap closing move. So while most ADC's get movement burst or a dash type effect, she has a mild movement speed bonus if she hits W on a champion but other than that, she's pretty unremarkable and easy to dodge. Think early game Kindred with Jinx's movement speed, if you can get past that you'll do well but if you can't it'll be a very difficult game just to break even.

Wait I'm confused, you just answered what his AP Ratios are so why are you asking what they are?

He has pretty crappy base values to make up for it...

Honestly, his passive shield is only 33-250 and scales with Level, thats one Autoattack for anyone besides other supports, his base heal is 150 at Level 18, and his shield is a 50-190 Shield on a 12 second Cooldown...

The AP Ratios are high because his base numbers are Garbage!

The validity of this thread has made it worth necroposting to.

The mage item rework has finally exposed Rakan's ridiculous scaling and has brought him into mid-lane where atrocious cool-downs don't really hurt that bad. He not only is very slippery, but very difficult to escape. And his scaling outscales most mages in a combo with 1 single ability ranked up (Honestly it doesnt' matter which, they all scale from 60-90, so whatever he ranks, will do more damage than you with the same item, and he still gets to charm you for a long time.)

Rakan is shoving other midlaners out, and taking place as a solve-all end-all to safe middle-laning. It is beyond frustrating because of the nerf to mobility, once again, that affects all but certain kits indirectly, and Rakan's kit is one of them.

At least one of his abilities should be brought into line with Mage AP scaling. But I'd prefer if you brought the entire kit ap scaling into line with bursty mage scaling.

While he's not Udyr, in the sense that he has >1:1 scaling, he still has close to 1:1 scaling, enough that having support items affects his ability as if he had a blasting wand.

Huh. I saw a "full ap rakan" montage and as far as those usually go it didnt seem as crazy as others

His W and ult also have low AP ratios so overall his kit is pretty balanced, lower AP ratios than Morgana who doesn't build a shit ton of AP as support. I think it's just to give him a broader selection of items. He doesn't really have enough CC to go full tank, so his build is going to be very similar to Sona or Morgana where he ends up with a low-medium amount of AP by endgame. Enough to where the ratios matter but nowhere near enough to get a deathcap.

Those ratios are way higher tan Sona's, and Sona has been nerfed a dozen times because "she does too much damage and heals too much".

I feel there is a double estándar here.