PASSIVE FEY FEATHERS
Rakan periodically gains a shield. Lover's Leap: Rakan can join Xayah's recall.
Rakan Wild Rift champion guide
Champion guide
What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.
- In-game title
- the Charmer
- Official role
- SUPPORT, TANK
- Lane
- Support
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Source tier
- S
Abilities
Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.
1 GLEAMING QUILL
Flings a magical feather that deals magic damage. Striking a champion or epic monster enables Rakan to heal his allies.
2 GRAND ENTRANCE
Dashes to a location, knocking up nearby enemies on arrival.
3 BATTLE DANCE
Flies to an allied champion granting them a shield. Can be re-cast for free for a short duration. When cast on Xayah, the shield amount is doubled and the cooldown is reduced.
ULTIMATE THE QUICKNESS
Gains movement speed, charming and dealing magic damage to enemies touched.
Reviewed build
The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.
Core build order
- Zeke's Convergence
- Hextech Rocketbelt
- Oceanid's Trident
- Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Runes
- Ice Overlord
- Unshakeable
- Bone Plating
- Perseverance
- Transcendence
Matchups
- 5reviewed counter links
- 5reviewed synergy links
Harder matchups
- BlitzcrankSupportA
- LeonaSupportS
- NautilusSupportA
- PykeSupportS
- ThreshSupportS
Useful alongside this pick
Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.
Quick answers
Who counters Rakan in Wild Rift?
In the matchup data documented in Rift Lab, these are the harder matchups for Rakan: Blitzcrank (Support), Leona (Support), Nautilus (Support), Pyke (Support), Thresh (Support). This is a documented matchup list, not a win rate: TheNexus does not publish win-rate or pick-rate figures it cannot source.
How do you play against Rakan in Wild Rift?
Riot's ability text for Rakan describes a dash, leap or blink in GRAND ENTRANCE (ability 2); a shield in BATTLE DANCE (ability 3); healing or regeneration in GLEAMING QUILL (ability 1). Plan around those abilities before a trade or a fight. These notes are keyword matches over the ability text only, not a rating of how strong Rakan is, so read the full descriptions on this page.
What is the best build for Rakan in Wild Rift?
The Nexus-reviewed core build for Rakan, in purchase order: Zeke's Convergence then Hextech Rocketbelt then Oceanid's Trident then Ionian Boots of Lucidity. Runes: Ice Overlord, Unshakeable, Bone Plating, Perseverance, Transcendence. This is a reviewed snapshot (patch 7.2b), not a build ranked by win rate.
Which lane and role does Rakan play in Wild Rift?
Rakan is a Support and Tank by Riot's classification and is played in Support. Riot rates the difficulty Medium. On our tier-list snapshot (patch 7.2b) it shows S tier from its external source, which is a snapshot letter and not a TheNexus win rate.
Every answer here is built from Rift Lab data and Riot's own ability text. Where the data is missing we say so instead of guessing.