Rakan vs Neeko — LoL Duel

⚔ Matchup Notes

Neeko is ranged and you're melee: you'll take free damage on minion last-hits. Focus on wave control.
Neeko is dangerous with burst damage; don't approach before level 6 without baiting out their abilities.
Neeko has multiple crowd-control abilities (auto-detected): watch your positioning.

🔴 Live In-Game Update

Once the game starts, mark how the enemy is actually building; situational item advice recalculates instantly. For a text-free, big-icon view during the match: 🎮 Game Mode

Items the enemy bought

♟ Counter Move — based on the enemy's real items

The model now computes with the real stats of the enemy items you marked, instead of a generic assumption. The items giving the highest duel gain on your next purchase:

🗡 Core Item Build — for Rakan, against the Neeko matchup (patch 16.14.1)

Game style: 🛡 Full Tank ⚖ Balanced ⚔ Full Damage (default for Rakan: ⚖ balanced)

1

Charge up in combat to deal high damage over time, especially against durable enemies

Liandry's Torment

3000 gold

DPS 49 → 76
Advantage 0.57 → 1.06
Efficiency ≥%63

2

Mercury's Treads

1250 gold

DPS 78 → 78
Advantage 0.94 → 1.03
Efficiency ≥%73

3

Kaenic Rookern

2900 gold

DPS 83 → 83
Advantage 0.79 → 1.28
Efficiency ≥%88

4

Movement builds charges that release chain lightning on basic attack

Statikk Shiv

3000 gold

DPS 87 → 116
Advantage 1.05 → 1.4
Efficiency ≥%101

5

Shadowflame

3200 gold

DPS 121 → 154
Advantage 1.15 → 1.47
Efficiency ≥%63

6

Increases Attack Speed, Ability Power, and Cooldown Reduction

Nashor's Tooth

2900 gold

DPS 160 → 199
Advantage 1.23 → 1.52
Efficiency ≥%120

🛡 Situational Items vs the Enemy

Banshee's Veil 3000 gold

Neeko deals magic damage; magic resist reduces magic damage by the formula. Your survival time 38.1s → 42.2s (duel advantage 2.42 → 2.87).

Sorcerer's Shoes BOOTS PICK

All boots were tested in the duel model; this gave the highest advantage (2.42 → 2.58, survival 38.1s → 38.1s).

🎯 Skill Order — computed from DPS gain per rank (reference: 120 AP / 72 AD)

Level-up priority: Q > W > E (R always at 6 / 11 / 16)

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Q

2

W

3

Q

4

W

5

Q

6

R

7

Q

8

W

9

Q

10

W

11

R

12

W

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E

14

E

15

E

16

R

17

E

18

E

Q — Gleaming Quill

DPS gain per rank: 14.0 / 5.9 / 7.2 / 9.0 / 11.6 (total 47.7)

W — Grand Entrance

DPS gain per rank: 11.9 / 4.8 / 5.6 / 6.6 / 7.9 (total 36.8)

E — Battle Dance

DPS gain per rank: 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 0.0 (total 0.0)

R — The Quickness

DPS gain per rank: 1.2 / 1.1 / 1.6 (total 3.9)

📐 Mathematical Proof

All advice is derived from the duel simulation below. Both sides are assumed to have spent equal gold for their level according to their own profile.

Level	Gold	Your DPS	Enemy DPS	Your EHP	Enemy EHP	Kill (s)	Die (s)	Advantage
6	4000	63	102	2314	1643	26.1	22.6	0.86
11	9000	74	121	4104	2923	39.6	34.0	0.86
16	14500	85	137	6128	4371	51.5	44.7	0.87

THE MODEL'S FORMULAS AND ASSUMPTIONS

Stat growth: stat(L) = base + growth×(L-1)×(0.7025 + 0.0175×(L-1)) — Riot's official formula.
Damage multiplier: 100 / (100 + resistance). Penetration stats are subtracted before resistance.
DPS = auto-attack DPS (AD × attack speed × crit multiplier) + ability rotation DPS (base damage + ratio×stat ÷ cooldown) — ability data is read from the current patch.
Duel advantage = your time-to-die ÷ your time-to-kill the enemy. Above 1: you win the duel.
Enemy model: the enemy spends gold equal to yours on stats fitting their own profile (fair duel). Healing counts as +22% effective HP; Grievous Wounds cuts it by 60%.
Item efficiency = stat value ÷ price. Stat values are derived from the table on the right (this patch's basic items); since passive effects aren't included, efficiency is a lower bound.
Range (kite) factor: a melee champion can apply 75% of its DPS to a ranged enemy.
Item selection target: score = min(die, 1.25×kill) ÷ kill + 0.6×(10 ÷ kill). That is: first survive enough to win the duel; defense beyond that is waste, gains come from kill speed.
Ratio matching: attack items must include the stat your ability ratios depend on (an AP champion isn't offered a pure AD/crit item); defensive items are open to everyone, their value set by the duel.
Ability numbers (base damage + ratios, rank by rank) come from the community source Meraki Analytics; Riot doesn't publish these in official data, so this source is used. If unavailable, a generic rotation is assumed (150 base + 0.55×AP + 0.4×AD, 8s cooldown).
If the enemy's real items are marked, the model uses those items' exact stats instead of a generic gold spread.
The RUNE PAGE is chosen entirely by math: the keystone is picked from the archetype pool by duel score (with a small priority to the meta standard); minor runes by a 'duel effect + utility' score per row, and the secondary tree is the one whose best two minor runes sum highest. Rune values are derived from Riot's descriptions; utilities invisible in a duel (ult cooldown/mana) are scored separately.
GAME STYLE (dengeli): 'tank' rewards absolute survival time (defense/EHP items rise), 'damage' rewards kill speed, 'balanced' both. Tank champions default to 'tank'; changeable at the top. Defense type is chosen by the enemy's damage (armor vs AD, magic resist vs AP).
Item passives are partly modeled: max-HP burn (Liandry, Blackfire), damage amplification (Riftmaker, Shadowflame), on-hit magic (Nashor). So items with strong passives are ranked by real effect, not just flat stats. Some items' numbers are template-hidden in Riot's data (like Nashor, Demonic), so that part may be missing.
TEAM MODE: in a live game, item score is computed weighted against the whole enemy team, not one enemy — the lane opponent 40%, the other 4 enemies share the remaining 60% equally. Each enemy is modeled with their real items; the armor/magic-resist decision is set by the team's damage split.

STAT GOLD VALUES (derived from this patch)

Stat	Gold	Source Item
Ability Haste	50.0	Glowing Mote
1% Crit Chance	40.0	Cloak of Agility
1% Life Steal	37.5	default
Lethality	35.0	Serrated Dirk (residual)
Attack Damage	32.5	B. F. Sword
1% Attack Speed	25.0	Dagger
Armor	20.0	Cloth Armor
Magic Resist	18.9	Negatron Cloak
Ability Power	18.5	Needlessly Large Rod
Move Speed	12.0	Boots
Health	2.6	Giant's Belt
Mana	1.0	Sapphire Crystal

✨ Rune Page

Resolve (Primary)

Guardian

Guard allies you cast spells on and those that are very nearby. If you or a guarded ally would take damage based on level, you're both granted a shield.