Talk:Rakan/@comment-4636093-20170508104505

It took me a while to put it in order but I've started to think that Rakan's ultimate may be one of the strongest ultimates in the game.

It's so flexible and controlable that it can hit enemies standing wherever they are. A lot of AoE ults require something of the enemy team to make use of their AoEs, most commonly them generically clumping together but there are some which require the opponent's stand in a line like Ezreal, Twitch or Sona's. Rakan's doesn't need any pattern and if the enemies are standing in a line he can run in a line, before suddenly making a 90° turn to chase down someone who wasn't in that line. And Rakan's is the only one which has this feature, he can hit everyone with it no matter where they're standing, even enemies standing on the other side of walls since he can jump them with his W and continue.

And then there's also the fact that it's an AoE charm. This causes enemies to naturally clump together when they're affected by it so that they can be hit by any other AoE his team has, or even his own W.

It does actually remind me of Orianna. It doesn't have the same force of it and because the speed boost is still less than the speed of your average projectile the Charm may wear off on his first target before he's caught the later ones, but its reliability at catching people in the first place can't be sniffed at. He can even catch 3 people with it, W them to lock them down so his team can finish them off... then use the remaining duration to chase down the other two since the duration is very long.