Akali with Brand
How to Synergize Akali and Brand
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Akali Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Brand
Tips for Playing as Akali with Brand
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.
Advice to Understand How Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Akali Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Akali in LoL
The Akali Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Brand, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Brand does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Brand.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Brand on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Brand?
There is no one best ally for Akali that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Brand is a pretty good ally for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Akali and Brand that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when finding Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Akali players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akali and Brand together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Akali and Brand synergy build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players picked for Akali and Brand pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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