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Riot please revert the Rakan changes immediately the entire community of Rakan mains is begging you

Taliyahc·1/24/2019, 4:37:53 PM·131 votes·29,029 views

Okay so Rakan was already in a semi-rough spot after a couple nerfs with many tracking sites posting his win rate at around a 48%. This was all good and fine though as a lot of Rakan mains could still do recently well with their job catching out enemy bottom laners to rack up kills for the ADC and later in the game comboing his ult and w.

Riot recently discovered a bug, however, shortening his ultimate hitbox from 150 - 50. Riot's decision was to fix this bug, but give a compensation nerf lowering his w to THE SPEED OF A FREAKING TURTLE IT FEELS RIDICULOUS.

Let me tell you as a Rakan one trick Rakan already had a rough time pre-6 with hitting w on the following champions

These champions all have something in their kit that helps them with movement or in sivir's case blocking the spell. The thing about Rakan's W is it has a long windup time upon arrival before it actually casts. Now that his W's movement speed was nerfed it takes him almost twice as long to reach the same distance and has a similar windup time making him now completely useless pre-6 and any ADC with a brain can easily walk out of his W even if they are wildly out of position.

Don't even get me started on this making him better post-6 for teamfights. I tested a movement speed build on him for engaging with ult and w combo and it still takes twice as long to reach the destination meaning Riot has basically forced Rakan's ult combo to only be useful at all if he uses flash first to engage as it helps with the massive arrival time.

Riot at this point please just revert this change I see his win rate easily dropping to 45-46% if not lower this will make him one of the weakest supports in League most likely fighting for that spot with Tahm Kench another support gutted by the balance team.

On behalf of all Rakan mains the R bug making it 50 range on hitbox sucked, but jesus christ it can not even compare to this.

EDIT 1 : https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/champion/Rakan/ 20 % winrate great one Riot

191 Comments

Moonscourge1/24/2019, 5:19:40 PM66 votes

Sorry, your champ needs to be kept in the dumpster with Ryze and Kalista because he is absolutely fundamentally broken.

Moody P1/24/2019, 5:07:27 PM50 votes

sorry freelo riders balance has finally come

xAcidik1/24/2019, 4:41:21 PM31 votes

100% agreed. I don't play Rakan, but the champ was already fairly weak.

TahmKenchIsHOT1/24/2019, 4:44:47 PM28 votes

Rakan't play now

VolatileAkali1/24/2019, 7:03:24 PM22 votes

Not hating (Because Akali is also gutted and she is broken.) Your champ is broken, you are a team fight god, you have mobility and cc to initiate a fight and most likely win it easily. You have also a decent shield to help your ADC. Rakan should be amazing at team fights, but not at laning.

saltran1/24/2019, 6:03:53 PM17 votes

As someome who plays immobile adcs good riddance.

YenJay1/24/2019, 4:41:07 PM14 votes

I wish a nice male would make love to my friend loky, but like really rough kinda like how riot fucked your champion over.

Abibyama II1/24/2019, 4:42:56 PM12 votes

##~~BRIGADE ALERT!~~

ilkiwer1/25/2019, 7:17:05 AM9 votes

I totally agree. Rakan is already a fairly squishy champion, played for his high-rewading high skillcap, but with this patch you destroyed him. With his neon-like w animation being already easily dodgeable, now it's worse: not only now he's as slow as a turtle, making him staying more in the fights; but he also got less armour, which is like saying: "hey, wanna try and do something? Then GET IN THE FIGHT AND DIE.". The nerf wasn't necessary at all, and just because kids say "duh he has mobility" talking about a champion whose strength is only the mobility doesn't mean Rakan needs to be completely obliterated.

Seems like Riot is trying to make LoL a brainless game based on damage and not on strategy: Galio can't save allies with his ultimate, having no damage reduction; alkali is now more visible in her fog than outside; Irelia doesn't disarm anymore, making her ultimate just a differently-shaped Box (Thresh's R); and now Rakan, famous for doing no damage but being a purely CC-er doesn't have decent abilities. I don't know, what will be next? Blitzcrank's hooks only applying damage? And Ashe's R too?

Riot, maybe you'll do your job of destroying LoL's strategy base quicker by removing all CCs...

~A Rakan Main, Hoping Someone Agrees With Him Rakan

LordRedStone Nr11/24/2019, 5:32:42 PM8 votes

I like to play Rakan a lot, and dashing plays a huge role in why he is fun to play. However, I understand that he needs to be nerfed for pro play. A good Flash, R, W combo is impossible to avoid and not really fun. Not sure about the direction of the nerfs though, base armor hits him really hard.

Duke 0f Pain1/25/2019, 5:03:31 AM6 votes

I havent tried playing him and im not too up to date on League buffs and nerfs but just hearing you tall about it makes it sound so bad and i dont even want to try and see what it is like espcially since he now has a 20% win rate. To all the people that were saying he was broken are absolutely wrong i love playing strong supports and rakan was already on the weaker scale if he werent with xayah in lane. You cant talk about how broken a champion is just cause you were the trash adc on the opposing side

Minimac20001/25/2019, 8:37:12 PM2 votes

Yeah, his lane was already crap. Upvoted. But don't even compare him to tahm kench oof, my baby :'( rakan still has mobility to survive and a useful ult unlike a particular river king

FixHealsRemoveGW1/25/2019, 10:45:54 AM2 votes

Is there are a Rakan main community and why can you speak for all of them? Maybe you are right about the W being too slow, but you know.... speak for yourself.

Phyre1/25/2019, 6:16:11 PM2 votes

Honestly, my main worry is that he feels complete crap to play now. This champion is the only one i dared to call "perfect" for me in the whole game. I always loved the fluidity of assassins' mobility, but i was drawn to the support role. Rakan was the best combination of these 2 concepts and there wasn't a single ability in his kit i didn't adore for the tiniest details, in the most insignificant ways. Now he doesn't feel fluid to play, he doesn't match his thematic as "The Quickness" anymore (more like "The Disabled Turtle") and he isn't the same champ i fell in love with. Nerf whatever you want from him, but keep this fluid movement and flashiness he deserves as a character. I understand the fact that he can 'easily' lockdown an enemy, with relative safety, doesn't sound like the healthiest mechanic to have in the game, but are you really willing to brutally kill off the satisfying feeling you get when you play him and make so many people end up dropping their main? I am sorry, but this doesn't even feel like the same champ anymore, and i tried everything to prove to myself it's not that bad. I guess i'll go to the next closest champ and play Pyke, even if he isn't nearly as fun and expresses me as much as Rakan did.

Who Fed Ru1/24/2019, 4:38:49 PM2 votes

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