Rakan·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Rakan Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Guardian as your keystone, followed by Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, as well as Sixth Sense and Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Celestial Opposition as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Locket of the Iron Solari. For your last 3 items, you should build Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - E - Q. Right now, this build has 50.7% winrate over 5 413 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Rakan Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Guardian as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, and Sixth Sense with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Solstice Sleigh, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Locket of the Iron Solari as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow and Vigilant Wardstone. The skill order for this build is W - E - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 50.1% win rate over 1 960 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Guardian as your keystone, Demolish, Bone Plating and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Celerity with Nimbus Cloak in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Celestial Opposition as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Shurelya's Battlesong as a third item. You want to finish the build with Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence and Vigilant Wardstone. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 55.6% win rate across 403 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Rakan Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Glacial Augment, Cash Back, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight as your primary rune tree, and Sixth Sense with Ultimate Hunter as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Celestial Opposition as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Locket of the Iron Solari as third item. The last 3 options are Zeke's Convergence, Redemption and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 51.6% win rate over 221 matches played.

Situational Rakan Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Rakan build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.