Talk:Rakan/@comment-26203093-20170523004724/@comment-26203093-20170523120321

You absolutely aren't trading extremes for consistency. AP scales him in so many vectors a single stat rounds him off. And there's no less reason to build AP on him than, say, annie bot, or brand, zyra, sona or any other support that scales with AP. His scaling is even higher than any of those, and, again, shields make it redundant with health. Even just a few tests and the effects were felt dramatically. Like double the win ratio. He simply doesn't perform that well early almost no matter what you build, but when CD's come down, and AP goes up, his team mates simply won't die, and if he waits, his capitalization potential his ridiculously high, and because of his low cooldowns and high scalings, if the enemy doesn't burst someone down - which he makes hard to do - it's like no one will die if he just plays it right.

It kinda depends on how bad his early game is and how the enemy manages to take advantage, But how you build isn't go to affect that early game - it WILL, however, affect the lategame, and AP causes some of the most ridiculous turn arounds I've seen on any champion.