Seriously. He is an incredible engager but he dies too fucking quickly. Please make him melee so he can use FOTM. coin and spell thief's are shit on him he is sitting at a 45% win rate because he doesn't synergize well with any of the support items. Can he just have 200 range and be coded as melee for fucks sake
That he dies quickly is intended... He is the assassin version of a support. You go in at the right moment (for example, if their CC is down), do fancy stuff (classic assassin: kill a carry, Rakan: CC the hell outta them) and then escape from the middle of the enemy team with your mobility (ally targeted dash and/or ult).
He is actually not intended to be played as a tank. Hence why he has all these AP ratios. If he would be intended to be played tank, his passive would scale with health instead of AP. It seems quite difficult to learn, since we don't really have other supports with an assassin playstyle. It is all about timing.
Melee range is 250.
Rakan's is 300.
Like if it's gonna be that low why not just drop it down another 50 points and just make him melee so he can get the execute off relic.
I like Spellthiefs on Rakan. Since his change to q range he can poke a lot easier, and with a bit of AP he can proc extra stacks before dashing back out. Plus the quest reward is REALLY nice on him. He may be at a low winrate but that may be due to tuning issues, general clunkiness, or just that people still haven't caught onto his unique playstyle.
And he's meant to be dangerously squishy. He has absurd ratios so that you give up a full tank build to be stronger in fights. He's not a vanguard, he's a mobile enchanter. While he can engage, it's best for him to wait until the team's tank initiates so that he can follow up, peeling away the enemy frontline, and making sure they don't roll over your team.
You can still use Relic Shield on Rakan. Just last hit the minion, like Thresh does.
It's even more frustrating now that FotM allows most supports to execute minions at 275 range
Hell, some melee champions can execute minions from beyond Rakan's attack range, like Tahm.
Idk what you talking about Rakan is just so fine whit coin its almost dumb to say otherwise.
no he has a low winrate because idiots that don't know his kit spam him
Rakan being melee would completely screw him. He is just by design squishy and thus he can't afford to absorb even a pair of hits to get a proc of FoTM for his ADC if it is needed, unlike what the tank support can do (he needs the shield for when he goes in or body block for his ally), and he gets pushed in by heavy poke/harass lane, and in addition to that he can't even reliably kill minions with his Q because of the low damage so FoTM is not useful, and its use shouldn't be pushed And Coin line is very good overall, it is just that starting Coin item has become even worse because less safer for him as it relies on his ally being able to kill minions at decent rate and his ally could just not do it, he has to hold on and not feed untill he can get Nomad where he can start to fight back consistently...which causes low win rate because if bot lane start to crumble in soloQ it is usually a trouble
To be honest, I think they should partially revert the W and E changes on 7.10
W should get less damage as it is not really the main strength of that spell and should not take more power budget in term of damage than what had on release state, E shiled value should be better at lower levels when Rakan has to keep it up with enemies(either higher base and lower scaling like 70/90/110/130/150, or same base and having it scale a bit better at 50/80/110/140/170 depending on how strong you want his shield to be at late levels)
He's SUPPOSED to die quickly. He'd be broken as a tank.
