_”I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”_ Feels like this is the case for all these seemingly at first absurd non-meta builds, but they've mastered their unique builds so much to the point it can get them to higher ranks!
I dont think its much about mastering their unique builds, but much more about finding the pick/playstyle that suits especially you and makes you enjoy playing more, which also makes you play better.
In the 2019 LEC, G2 pulled out AP Rakan Mid and Xayah Jungle, which ended up with a win for them. This was actually a last minute decision to give Mikyx mid and Perkz jungle in response to a Taric Sona bot lane.
yoo do you have a link of the vod? edit: actually found it th-cam.com/video/7ZTYh8a2yow/w-d-xo.html also found a "pov" : th-cam.com/video/mp_aq18zg38/w-d-xo.html
A) It wasn't ap rakan. B) It wasn't rakan mid. He was roaming. C) Rakan was much different back then. D) They were using a simple funnel, not something too unheard of.
I too play ap Rakan. When I started playing league I was looking at champs to play, and I just loved Rakans kit and playstyle. The thing is, if you are low elo like me, people don see Rakan and they often don't know what you do. I've tried supporting but every time I do anything, no one follows me because they don't know what Rakan does. So I decided to go full ap. Personally, I go Night Harvester instead of Rocketbelt and for runes, while they are normally same, if I'm into an assasin, I like to take bone plating and revitalize for seconds so I don't get bursted as easily and to get more heal and shield value (I tend to miss q sometimes, because I overestimate it's range, so it makes up for it xd) Also if 3 or more are tanky/building HP I switch to Liandry's but then I peel for my team instead of assassinating enemies.
@@fusionxtras The whole point is to hit your W with Rakan, so someone like Zed or Yasuo, who are always meta, it's not going to be so easy to do it, and if you miss it, you lost a trade.
@@fusionxtras You gotta think about the lane. Later on, yes, an assassin WILL be going in all the time. Lane, though? A good one will bide his time. Zed is perfectly happy playing the game of attrition and throwing Qs or WEQs until lvl 6 if necessary. And since Rakan is so reliant on his W landing, any good player will have the sense to just flash it. Consider also the psychological effect of losing the first duel on an offmeta pick. Not on Yourself, but on the teammates. I´ve had people flame me for offmeta picks even after I actually WON my lane; now imagine how they react when You pick it and lose lane. Seriously, as someone who plays offmeta as often as possible (Zac, Vi, Sej, Kog mid, Shyvana and Sona top back before it was gutted, Mordekaiser Jungle etc), at least a third of my losses are due to some teammate deciding they dont want to win because of my "trollpick" - ranging from ragesplitting, actively avoiding anything to do with me in teamfights, down to outright running it down mid or going afk.
@@FourDerpyPaws as someone who plays ap kog religiously these days i understand that feeling. My understanding of the assassin matchup early as rakan is To ensure that you get early levels properly pushing minions fast into melee champs 1. Auto spacing and trading to deter engagement 2. Warding and playing to jungle side to prevent ganks 3. Seekers armguard into ad assassins So this is something I found SUPER useful playing ap kogmaw mid and it would definitely work as rakan armor stacking is a counter to lethality stacking until they get a percent armor pen item 4. Timing knockups and ults on engagement On Zed I'd imagine the knockup timing to be much easier to land, into talon as well. The ult charm is just a plain counter to zed too since it reduces ult damage by reducing the upfront burst.
@@lonnie3729 first, they aren't always meta just always popular. Second you have more than just a knockup as rakan. I remember when ap rakan was meta a few years ago and he was a zed counter just dont int and you will do well into him follow roams and call mia if he is gone. Yas definitely seems like a more annoying matchup however.
I've played with this guy multiple times in season 10. We were both high LP Challenger playing pretty much at the same timezone. He is such a playmaker, going all around the map carrying the game. Sadly if your jungler isn't actually contesting anything you can get really behind and be useless all game. You need items in order for it to be good and farming isn't it's strong point.
@@tsoxseba364 nah I can climb easily but I highly doubt that you’re chall since chall is 0,01% of the playerbase, just basing myself off of statistics and your basic response I am certain that you’re just a little kid stuck in bronze honestly
well as a garen player i noticed the lvl 1 movespeed duration going from 1.5 sec to 1 sec and then few patches later i also greatly noticed the damage based on missing health on R improved by 5% at all ranks but indeed it doesn’t change the gameplay at all it only changes what your champ is capable of and players are capable of much more than what their champs can do they are capable of justice !
I watched a video about him more than a year ago, reached Diamond 3 72 LP with it, and I can say that if you put the time on it, its one of the strongest picks, at least for me. I do care about the patch notes and item changes, and I think I have the build that is better than rushing Rabaddons, go for Rocketbelt and then Horizon Focus, R and W, even Q at long range procs the passive on it, making your combo deal like 20 less dmg than Rabaddon, but being 600 gold cheaper, u get same dmg and an earlier spike, depends on the game and I have other situational builds, if u want to know them dont be afraid asking, its just I personally tried to talk to AssassinRakann and he just doesnt even disscuss about it or anything
Horizon focus increase % of your dmg and have a bad cost for 115 ap, rakan is a full ap builder so it's the WORST item you can get to scale, if you want to take it always after rabadon because he gain 35% gold effiency -> 3000 -> 4000 gold Rush ap is super important early because you have big ap ratios on spell, shield and ally shield which is win condition on jungle fights and teamfights, maybe not 1v1 but you dont want win mid anyway
@@gbreuil1 Thats why I said that it depends on the situation, not every game you go Horizon Focus, obv Rabaddon gives u better scaling, but when you need and early spike, you get Horizon Focus, you heal a bit less and x2 shield less, but same dmg on combo for 600 less gold, that means more or less 2 teamfights earlier than Rabaddon you're already a threat, and has a better build path, so if you need to win early as possible (early comp or vs kassadin where u insta lose late game) its better to go for an earlier spike to have more % of winning. Going for rabbadon gives u maybe 2 backs where not having 1250, means for 2 backs ure not getting anything that makes u stronger, as said, depends on the situation, im just saying not blindly follow Rabaddon 2º every game
This is a pick that I am very familiar with as well. I picked it quite a few times in clash with my friends to counterpick certain champs. An example would be Zed. He can't win a trade if you dodge at least 1 q every trade because of your passive and if he tries to all in you can just w him after his ult (if it is a good Zed who puts a w first before ult, try to go near the w so you are in the aoe of the w to knockup zed in any scenario).
Actually in wild rift the three best rakan players build ap rakan ,I can see why ,in wr the stone plate is an active that gives you HP and 60% damage reduction so he is pretty tank with that item and only builds Zeke to give some utility
Now this is interesting, the other day I noticed the high AP ratios that rakan has and started trying something like this. The only difference is that you have to start with an armor item, from the durability patch on everyone survives the rakan one shot. I actually go ingenious hunter in the runes and frozen heart then lich, night harvester. It fixes the issue of his high cooldowns, and he's basically an ap lee sin win mana lol. Recommended.
I used to play AP Rakan a lot but as he struggles so much with waveclear my bronze mentality kept me away from it. Thanks to both of you I'll be back B)
I absolutely agree with you on meta. The only times I have ever dropped a main were: - Evelynn rework, making her a completely different champion; I miss my stealthy AP bruiser invisible singed in drag - Hecarim season 6 nerfs where he went from top tier to literally not being able to clear the jungle
_I literally main this. It's super fun, and also super hard, to play. In a way, that's why it's so cool. It's like you are playing a different game that everybody else, and it's super rewording._
Thats what i tell people! When someone talks about how they pick this or that because it has the highest win rate i say "your still on the tutorial if you need someone to tell you what to buy and who to play. One day youll be able to pick out your clothes for yourself." Its so rewarding to find YOUR champ and YOUR build. Double burn anivia support is mine. Liandrys into a tanky item into demonic embrace into rabadons. Took like 60 games to get the hang of its pacing, but even when i get counter picked, i end up kicking butt mid and late game. I dont understand why people are so hung up on that meta mentality. Like they are so scared to lose theyll only play what other people say is the best. Technicly speaking the lowest picked champs have the best scaling and most diverse kits, but require more skill to learn and use so no one uses them... Its sad
@@popanda3652 it's cause the meta is formed by pro and top players, while the rest of the game is played by not pro and top players. Things work differently at different times and skill levels xD
10:09 finally someone said it. Nerfs don't matter in low elo. Just play your damn champ. You're not a pro player, challenger player. Nerfs don't mean shit to you
Hey man love the videos, though I wonder, even tho it isn't as offmeta, if you'll ever do a video on JingleDingle(Spear Shot) who got 1.1k LP by onetricking Pantheon in the Toplane(his 3rd most viable role after mid and supp) using a different keystone and build that no stat-site recommends or no other panth player uses, he's such a down to earth guy as well so I'm sure he'd love to do an interview as well. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I have talked to him for a while actually, love his stream. Right now I think it is not off meta enough due to people's 'expectations' of where he should be played. But I think some time next year it would be a great video :)
the thing is right, its mentioned briefly but it should be well known, that rakan is not really the best engage champ. Where he really shines is like a secondary engage (at least in teamfights, its different when 1v1 or 2v2) but his followup after the ither ccs and stuff are used is insane, simce his w is so strong
tbh i feel bad for him now after the durability update. he dropped into diamond and doesn't seem to play much on this account anymore. he even has started to play a lot more other champs.
well time to main my 100th off meta pick also ty for getting me back into league that taric top and shyvana top got me into league again i have been playing offmeta since i started watching u so thankyou for these videos
chime, I get your point, but for example. kha'zix got nerfed last patch, and a lot of early game fights you used to win now you don't. Obviously if you get fed you still 1-shot, but in a match where you don't get a serious lead the difference is felt
if i remember correctly, dong also made a video on assassin rakan around season 10 and when i want to troll i just pick him even know and enemies don't know what's coming for them
what do you go on full ap rakan support? i imagine everfrost would be good since it gives a lot of ap, some health and more cc and it's cheap but i also imagine night harvester would be good since it gives so much cdr and movement speed
@@paftaq526 usually hexbelt or liandry's depending on how fed you are, then I just stack the AP and magic pen. But I do play in low elo - it's much better there because people don't really know what to do with Rakan who does damage there...
I don't play ranked but ad assassin rakan works very similair, you get more wave clear, go galeforce I also have a bruiser build that works well, cause you can combo stride/gore with w great for split (I just want to 1v1) and when you go to team fights you have insane cdr on bruiser so your a good bruiser with a 4 second dash/knock up (but he dosent count as a melee champion so some items don't work, but like why, his auto attacks are melee attacks)
he can goes full ap without losing hisnutility, even he can give you thicker shield and bigger healing, the only thing he lack of is just the tankiness, but since league of legend is almost all about one shot, so the lack tankiness is less considerable
After this video I am sure that this is still possible to start playing off meta pick on jungle but I still don't know what champ could work but I will still looking for this one champ
@@AliShahzodov I play him a little bit with full ap and tanky (frostlet gauntlet, sry if I spell it wrong) and it's not bad, I even try some else picks like: ezreal, pyke, yasuo; also sylas and pantheon before nerf to jg (idk when it happen but long time ago)
What exactly is the reason for w max kata? It only gives you more movement speed and the dmg from the daggers increases from your champion level. Was that for old kata?
These guys staying power to only play one champion is crazy. There is so many unique good ideas, I want to try them all. But then will be bad at them because I haven't mastered anyone of them.
Maybe we should start playing AP supports and build them damage since they're AP scaling should be higher than other AP Champions. (Probably because they weren't supposed to build it)
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@@thewalsh2k047 No I encourage them to :)
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Hey Happy, just wondering where you think this pick would stand on your off meta tier list?
I played with him twice, he wasn't toxic at all, just chilling. When he didn't get midlane, he played janna top and was doing pretty decent.
AHAHHAAHAH
Absolute chad
Janna top? In ranked?? Gigachad
Agree, I play with him too and he was super chill, actually I was the toxic one that’s why my account got perma ban lol.
Sure you did
_”I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”_
Feels like this is the case for all these seemingly at first absurd non-meta builds, but they've mastered their unique builds so much to the point it can get them to higher ranks!
I dont think its much about mastering their unique builds, but much more about finding the pick/playstyle that suits especially you and makes you enjoy playing more, which also makes you play better.
@@Gangsterstiefel as a taliyah support main, I can say that you do need some mastery with it to abuse the ennemies' lack of match-up knowledge
@@flops1792 nah u just mad cuz u bad prob bronze 10 or sum thin
@@AeKay1 he is not mad
@@AeKay1 he is not mad
In the 2019 LEC, G2 pulled out AP Rakan Mid and Xayah Jungle, which ended up with a win for them. This was actually a last minute decision to give Mikyx mid and Perkz jungle in response to a Taric Sona bot lane.
Darktorch?
yoo do you have a link of the vod?
edit: actually found it
th-cam.com/video/7ZTYh8a2yow/w-d-xo.html
also found a "pov" : th-cam.com/video/mp_aq18zg38/w-d-xo.html
A) It wasn't ap rakan.
B) It wasn't rakan mid. He was roaming.
C) Rakan was much different back then.
D) They were using a simple funnel, not something too unheard of.
@@JunTheDude32 still funny tho
no need to care that much about it
i love that the “solutions” to rakaan’s problems is literally just the same thing every single mid laner does
I know that Varus one shotting Galio clip. I never knew he was the one responsible for it.
I thought PekinWoof made that clip
@@josesuazo7318 Orly?
@@BraveLilToasty ye im pretty sure
Yes that is Pekinwolf, unfortuantly he did not have any old clips of his own but I wanted to show off AP varus anyway :)
I too play ap Rakan. When I started playing league I was looking at champs to play, and I just loved Rakans kit and playstyle. The thing is, if you are low elo like me, people don see Rakan and they often don't know what you do. I've tried supporting but every time I do anything, no one follows me because they don't know what Rakan does. So I decided to go full ap. Personally, I go Night Harvester instead of Rocketbelt and for runes, while they are normally same, if I'm into an assasin, I like to take bone plating and revitalize for seconds so I don't get bursted as easily and to get more heal and shield value (I tend to miss q sometimes, because I overestimate it's range, so it makes up for it xd) Also if 3 or more are tanky/building HP I switch to Liandry's but then I peel for my team instead of assassinating enemies.
Doesnt rakan counter assassins? They want to go in he wants them to go in. I'd imagine he struggles against control mages, tanks, and bruisers
@@fusionxtras The whole point is to hit your W with Rakan, so someone like Zed or Yasuo, who are always meta, it's not going to be so easy to do it, and if you miss it, you lost a trade.
@@fusionxtras You gotta think about the lane. Later on, yes, an assassin WILL be going in all the time. Lane, though? A good one will bide his time. Zed is perfectly happy playing the game of attrition and throwing Qs or WEQs until lvl 6 if necessary. And since Rakan is so reliant on his W landing, any good player will have the sense to just flash it.
Consider also the psychological effect of losing the first duel on an offmeta pick. Not on Yourself, but on the teammates. I´ve had people flame me for offmeta picks even after I actually WON my lane; now imagine how they react when You pick it and lose lane. Seriously, as someone who plays offmeta as often as possible (Zac, Vi, Sej, Kog mid, Shyvana and Sona top back before it was gutted, Mordekaiser Jungle etc), at least a third of my losses are due to some teammate deciding they dont want to win because of my "trollpick" - ranging from ragesplitting, actively avoiding anything to do with me in teamfights, down to outright running it down mid or going afk.
@@FourDerpyPaws as someone who plays ap kog religiously these days i understand that feeling.
My understanding of the assassin matchup early as rakan is
To ensure that you get early levels properly pushing minions fast into melee champs
1. Auto spacing and trading to deter engagement
2. Warding and playing to jungle side to prevent ganks
3. Seekers armguard into ad assassins
So this is something I found SUPER useful playing ap kogmaw mid and it would definitely work as rakan armor stacking is a counter to lethality stacking until they get a percent armor pen item
4. Timing knockups and ults on engagement
On Zed I'd imagine the knockup timing to be much easier to land, into talon as well. The ult charm is just a plain counter to zed too since it reduces ult damage by reducing the upfront burst.
@@lonnie3729 first, they aren't always meta just always popular. Second you have more than just a knockup as rakan. I remember when ap rakan was meta a few years ago and he was a zed counter just dont int and you will do well into him follow roams and call mia if he is gone. Yas definitely seems like a more annoying matchup however.
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I've played with this guy multiple times in season 10. We were both high LP Challenger playing pretty much at the same timezone. He is such a playmaker, going all around the map carrying the game. Sadly if your jungler isn't actually contesting anything you can get really behind and be useless all game. You need items in order for it to be good and farming isn't it's strong point.
Yeah sure you were
@@kamino9502 the fact that you can't climb doesn't mean that other people can't.
@@tsoxseba364 nah I can climb easily but I highly doubt that you’re chall since chall is 0,01% of the playerbase, just basing myself off of statistics and your basic response I am certain that you’re just a little kid stuck in bronze honestly
@@kamino9502 Tsox#8871 send me a message there I will send you screenshots
@@tsoxseba364 I don’t need screens you can tell me your acc I’ll send you a friend request and then I’ll be convinced
well as a garen player i noticed the lvl 1 movespeed duration going from 1.5 sec to 1 sec
and then few patches later i also greatly noticed the damage based on missing health on R improved by 5% at all ranks
but indeed it doesn’t change the gameplay at all it only changes what your champ is capable of
and players are capable of much more than what their champs can do
they are capable of justice !
RakaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAn
I was playing this as support since long ago, crazy to see someone go so high doing it
I love to play this in my free time, it's so fun
I tried full AP Rakan mid once using Everfrost. Needless to say the m7 Syndra wasn't having it.
I watched a video about him more than a year ago, reached Diamond 3 72 LP with it, and I can say that if you put the time on it, its one of the strongest picks, at least for me. I do care about the patch notes and item changes, and I think I have the build that is better than rushing Rabaddons, go for Rocketbelt and then Horizon Focus, R and W, even Q at long range procs the passive on it, making your combo deal like 20 less dmg than Rabaddon, but being 600 gold cheaper, u get same dmg and an earlier spike, depends on the game and I have other situational builds, if u want to know them dont be afraid asking, its just I personally tried to talk to AssassinRakann and he just doesnt even disscuss about it or anything
Horizon focus increase % of your dmg and have a bad cost for 115 ap, rakan is a full ap builder so it's the WORST item you can get to scale, if you want to take it always after rabadon because he gain 35% gold effiency -> 3000 -> 4000 gold
Rush ap is super important early because you have big ap ratios on spell, shield and ally shield which is win condition on jungle fights and teamfights, maybe not 1v1 but you dont want win mid anyway
@@gbreuil1 Thats why I said that it depends on the situation, not every game you go Horizon Focus, obv Rabaddon gives u better scaling, but when you need and early spike, you get Horizon Focus, you heal a bit less and x2 shield less, but same dmg on combo for 600 less gold, that means more or less 2 teamfights earlier than Rabaddon you're already a threat, and has a better build path, so if you need to win early as possible (early comp or vs kassadin where u insta lose late game) its better to go for an earlier spike to have more % of winning. Going for rabbadon gives u maybe 2 backs where not having 1250, means for 2 backs ure not getting anything that makes u stronger, as said, depends on the situation, im just saying not blindly follow Rabaddon 2º every game
This is a pick that I am very familiar with as well. I picked it quite a few times in clash with my friends to counterpick certain champs. An example would be Zed. He can't win a trade if you dodge at least 1 q every trade because of your passive and if he tries to all in you can just w him after his ult (if it is a good Zed who puts a w first before ult, try to go near the w so you are in the aoe of the w to knockup zed in any scenario).
As a rakan mid player I love this video it's also super helpful
FINALLY A RAKAN VIDEO. As a Rakan main, I'm so hyped seeing this in my notification bar.
2:05 Greetings from Poland Zeju Army XD
Actually in wild rift the three best rakan players build ap rakan ,I can see why ,in wr the stone plate is an active that gives you HP and 60% damage reduction so he is pretty tank with that item and only builds Zeke to give some utility
Now this is interesting, the other day I noticed the high AP ratios that rakan has and started trying something like this. The only difference is that you have to start with an armor item, from the durability patch on everyone survives the rakan one shot. I actually go ingenious hunter in the runes and frozen heart then lich, night harvester. It fixes the issue of his high cooldowns, and he's basically an ap lee sin win mana lol. Recommended.
I used to play AP Rakan a lot but as he struggles so much with waveclear my bronze mentality kept me away from it. Thanks to both of you I'll be back B)
as a 2000 hour jungle main, I can tell this guy is every junglers wet dream and enemy junglers nightmare.
I absolutely agree with you on meta. The only times I have ever dropped a main were:
- Evelynn rework, making her a completely different champion; I miss my stealthy AP bruiser invisible singed in drag
- Hecarim season 6 nerfs where he went from top tier to literally not being able to clear the jungle
_I literally main this. It's super fun, and also super hard, to play. In a way, that's why it's so cool. It's like you are playing a different game that everybody else, and it's super rewording._
Thats what i tell people! When someone talks about how they pick this or that because it has the highest win rate i say "your still on the tutorial if you need someone to tell you what to buy and who to play. One day youll be able to pick out your clothes for yourself." Its so rewarding to find YOUR champ and YOUR build. Double burn anivia support is mine. Liandrys into a tanky item into demonic embrace into rabadons. Took like 60 games to get the hang of its pacing, but even when i get counter picked, i end up kicking butt mid and late game. I dont understand why people are so hung up on that meta mentality. Like they are so scared to lose theyll only play what other people say is the best. Technicly speaking the lowest picked champs have the best scaling and most diverse kits, but require more skill to learn and use so no one uses them... Its sad
@@popanda3652 it's cause the meta is formed by pro and top players, while the rest of the game is played by not pro and top players. Things work differently at different times and skill levels xD
10:09 finally someone said it. Nerfs don't matter in low elo. Just play your damn champ. You're not a pro player, challenger player. Nerfs don't mean shit to you
Friday's are the best days because your videos come out! Thank you, Chime! gg
my father got to diamond 2 last season with this, amazing dmg, good teamfights, its got almost everything
2:10 Katarina w max doesnt give ur w dagger more damage, it just makes u faster and the cooldown is lower
I was talking about old kata
Chime : *uploads*
My teammates in next game : pleas have mercy
0:41 Yoo, that's sick, it even blurs the numbers aoutomatically so people next to you can't read them
I hope more people play this playstyle I just smoked a rakan mid; fun times freelo.
Do a video on lord semi, he's an BR mono rammus that plays on na and eu with 200ms, last time I checked he was gm.
Hey man love the videos, though I wonder, even tho it isn't as offmeta, if you'll ever do a video on JingleDingle(Spear Shot) who got 1.1k LP by onetricking Pantheon in the Toplane(his 3rd most viable role after mid and supp) using a different keystone and build that no stat-site recommends or no other panth player uses, he's such a down to earth guy as well so I'm sure he'd love to do an interview as well.
Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I have talked to him for a while actually, love his stream. Right now I think it is not off meta enough due to people's 'expectations' of where he should be played. But I think some time next year it would be a great video :)
@@HappyChimeNoises Thank you so much for replying, and yes that's very understandable. Great work on the AP Rakan Mid and keep up the amazing work!
the thing is right, its mentioned briefly but it should be well known, that rakan is not really the best engage champ. Where he really shines is like a secondary engage (at least in teamfights, its different when 1v1 or 2v2) but his followup after the ither ccs and stuff are used is insane, simce his w is so strong
I can’t believe you released this after I’ve already been playing it all yesterday
tbh i feel bad for him now after the durability update. he dropped into diamond and doesn't seem to play much on this account anymore. he even has started to play a lot more other champs.
First rakan mid was the french yoons
Le fameux Rakanapé
Avec 2 N xd
You wrote it with ONE N INSTEAD OF 2 !!!
With 2n's: yoonns
well time to main my 100th off meta pick also ty for getting me back into league that taric top and shyvana top got me into league again i have been playing offmeta since i started watching u so thankyou for these videos
i also have autisum so this helps me be diffrent than playing same old meta champs im outside the box and offmeta is that in a nutshell
2:07 IDOL
i cant find his profile anymore on the tracker, rip
Happy to see people first-timing it in ranked rn yeyyy😳
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I absolutely love this build and have been spamming it for over a year now, thanks for this video now i get more ap rakan mid buddies :D
Rakan mid has been a pick of mine since s9. Stopped playing in s11 because of items rework but I think I'll try him again .
reminds me of the Lethality Yi Mid strategy, but AP
wait a second...
that reminds me of the strange AP Yi times :o
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chime, I get your point, but for example. kha'zix got nerfed last patch, and a lot of early game fights you used to win now you don't. Obviously if you get fed you still 1-shot, but in a match where you don't get a serious lead the difference is felt
if i remember correctly, dong also made a video on assassin rakan around season 10 and when i want to troll i just pick him even know and enemies don't know what's coming for them
I was just thinking about playing Full Ap Rakan and then this video gets uploaded very conveniently. Thank you
This is why I play rakan. He’s so fun. In my opinion, there’s no reason to go yank or heal Rakan, even as a sup. Just always go full ap
what do you go on full ap rakan support? i imagine everfrost would be good since it gives a lot of ap, some health and more cc and it's cheap but i also imagine night harvester would be good since it gives so much cdr and movement speed
@@paftaq526 usually hexbelt or liandry's depending on how fed you are, then I just stack the AP and magic pen. But I do play in low elo - it's much better there because people don't really know what to do with Rakan who does damage there...
Great vid. Keep up the good work
That Ridge Wallet transition was so smooth wow
WHOOO GOOD JOB WHOEVER TOOK THAT TO CHALLANGER!
I love playing supports in midlane
Not gonna lie the advertisement transition is really cool
This Channel makes me think that everything is op
I don't play ranked but ad assassin rakan works very similair, you get more wave clear, go galeforce
I also have a bruiser build that works well, cause you can combo stride/gore with w great for split (I just want to 1v1) and when you go to team fights you have insane cdr on bruiser so your a good bruiser with a 4 second dash/knock up (but he dosent count as a melee champion so some items don't work, but like why, his auto attacks are melee attacks)
he can goes full ap without losing hisnutility, even he can give you thicker shield and bigger healing, the only thing he lack of is just the tankiness, but since league of legend is almost all about one shot, so the lack tankiness is less considerable
I love your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
you had me at "rakan mid does not care about farming" :D
Rakan seems fun solo lane, txs for the idea
this is the most bingable channel and i love it
Fucking love this mans story voice. Say what you want, soooooothing as fuck.
3:10 i knew lucain was the one who was over extended i mean that is the funnyest thing he was never safe
After this video I am sure that this is still possible to start playing off meta pick on jungle but I still don't know what champ could work but I will still looking for this one champ
Mordekaiser?
@@AliShahzodov I play him a little bit with full ap and tanky (frostlet gauntlet, sry if I spell it wrong) and it's not bad, I even try some else picks like: ezreal, pyke, yasuo; also sylas and pantheon before nerf to jg (idk when it happen but long time ago)
Depend on elo d4 and below anything will work. Champion with gap closer or long range cc work the best.
saw something about zed jg, maybe?
Yorick jungle is pretty good, after level 6 his clear is insane. He is still a split pushing beast that can solo baron after a few items.
So this explains the rakan I saw mid yesterday. Safe to say the guy's teammates weren't to happy with him
What exactly is the reason for w max kata? It only gives you more movement speed and the dmg from the daggers increases from your champion level. Was that for old kata?
Yup for old kata
I was just looking for this video in your channel earlier today. Hahaha
These guys staying power to only play one champion is crazy. There is so many unique good ideas, I want to try them all. But then will be bad at them because I haven't mastered anyone of them.
Best league channel
Maybe we should start playing AP supports and build them damage since they're AP scaling should be higher than other AP Champions. (Probably because they weren't supposed to build it)
As ap rakan OTP i really enjoy this.
Is there a reason for no cosmic drive? Seems like it would be really strong
god yes ive been waiting for this one
Holy fuck, didnt expect xayoo to appear in one of your videos
I actually go everfrost instead of hextec i feel like its better sometimes you can even peel teammates if neededif needed
Im so conflicted over this video. Ive been trying to theory craft this and kept making jokes about you making it into a video and here we are.
I knew it, my man Darkkmane was playing before it was a thing
PLEASE DO A VIDEO FOR PYKE MID
3:05 actual state of the game summed up in 20 seconds lmao
Finally a video on my boi!
Wait, people are going to try and play him now so I can’t…nooooo ;-;
Poland ON TOP BABY
Yesss he got a video
Xayoo isn't youtuber but an ex-proplayer who played jungle for reason gaming also hes more known for being a twitch streamer atm.
Xayo VisLaud
zeju PogChamp
Do one on NikkiTT or Botlane Behemoth, reached master euw with Mordekaiser bot lane
Holy cow the edit with the samira ridge wallet caught me off guard. I had to laugh xD
0:25 "And new item", proceeds to show a clip with protobelt
What do you mean? They changed protobelt except the active.
Finally, what i need
Somewhere out there Darkk Mane is solemnly nodding
There's a typo it said "assassin rakann" instead of "assassin rakan" (3rd chapter)
that isnt a typo thats their name lmao
@@ekko5596 oh wait lol
2:20 would fiora have gotten the stun off, if she had flashed onto rakan midst the w animation? prob wouldve died anyways but still interesting.
You can Q + W at the same time as fiora to walk into a stun + counter it. Boxbox does it all the time
Holy moly that ridge wallet transition
2:07 Zejuu XDD i guess xayoo will never escape the wrong prenounciation xD
Here early for once! Another masterpiece
My friend played a rakan mid (not this build) and went 4/0 in first 15 min with some of my help(jungle) but still that akali was terrified of him
Huge shoutout to darkmane for inventing AP Rakan
i'm trying this in wild rift, but on baron lane, is it good tho???
Let's gooooo, I will try this in Wild Rift!!!!
Thanks HappyChimeNoises :D