Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Akali Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Aatrox, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Aatrox does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Aatrox on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Akali during team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Akali and Aatrox that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Aatrox has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Aatrox comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Akali players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to synergize with Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Akali and Aatrox synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Aatrox than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aatrox with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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