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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Akali Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aphelios helps Akali perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Aphelios, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This could signal that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Aphelios on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Akali during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Akali that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Aphelios is a very typical companion for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Akali and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players must be very careful when enlisting Aphelios comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Aphelios together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Akali and Aphelios synergy build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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