Why is rakan so... slow and squishy?
So, rakan is a support champ with a ranged attack that is so short ranged... it might as well be melee. He also has pitiful base move speed when compared to other melee champs. Here is a link to a spreadsheet containing base statistics of champs.
So, he has 335 base move speed. Look at champs like illaoi. she gets 350 movespeed. In addition, rakan has low health. 510 base health on a champion that is gold starved by nature of being a support.
In the lore, rakan is a wily charmer/singer with quick movespeed that dazzles enemies while xayah finishes them off. In reality, he is a slow moving support that is easy to chase down if he doesn't have his ultimate up, and doesn't have a nearby ally to leap to. Due to this, rakan is a champ that could use buffs in several departments.
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give rakan movespeed. He is supposed to b e a wily quick and beguiling charmer. Why can't he toy with a champion like yi? Rakan SHOULD be able to outrun yi unless yi uses his ult. Rakan SHOULD be able to taunt yi, and make yi angry, but he shouldn't be able to actually kill him in combat. 350 base movement speed instead of 335 is what I am asking for.
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give rakan a pinch more sustain. his passive shield should be proccing twice as often to ensure rakan is not forced back to base early from annoying the enemy adc champions. Annoyance is his job. He shouldn't be killed for annoying an enemy champ. Rakan deals literally no damage, and can barely get kills in his current state. Let him annoy champs and make him hard to kill early game as payoff for that.
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Make rakan a melee champ so he can use the melee tank survivability items.
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give rakan a shorter cooldown on his ult. All he does is run around quick and charm people, its not like its an ultimate that can KO two or three people (looking at yasuo and jhin) They get much shorter cooldowns on their ultimates, why can't rakan get a short cooldown on his ult?
