Talk:Rakan/@comment-24971427-20170411071013/@comment-4091261-20170420060008

Eh? What the... we didn't even mention solo at all.

For an, I am suggested , , and --all of which are not solo items at all.

I mean, I agree with you. doesn't really have what it takes to solo easily. I'm just wondering how that was even assumed here. In all fairness, all the issues with his "utility" being "team based" is insignificant. There are plenty of champions like and  who pulled off the solo lanes just fine. The real problem is his innate damage output.

In the end, since just does not pump out that threatening damage early on, he has no grounds to be getting that stupendous amounts of. The greatest strengths with going an off-meta or  build is the ability to snowball. Without that damage, he is just not snowballing from that.

Of course can build  and actually have quite monstrous damage, something along the same lines as, but unlike  a huge portion of his gains are selfless when he starts becoming powerful. While that is great and all, snowballing is supposed to propogate upon itself.

Getting stronger is supposed to make it easier to get even stronger. However, with these selfless elements getting stronger is just granting gains in teamwide defense. It's quite amazing once he gets items like, , and , but the ratio of protective to damaging ratios is painfully clear while building these items. Going full  is moreso helping teammates snowball rather than himself.

The true strength of the full build is when he has someone to backup, constantly. It's why he's better off supporting than anything else. Although a lot of his is dumped in defenses, he can utilize this to create extremely confident engages with the close coordination of the jungler. Given that his ratios for defenses are supermassive right at level 1, he can coordinate this right away, even if his individual damage might be fairly subpar at the beginning.