Akali with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Akali and Caitlyn
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Akali Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Akali with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Akali Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Akali in LoL
The Akali Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Akali perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Caitlyn, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Caitlyn 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 synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Caitlyn on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
Synergies between Akali and Caitlyn
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Is Akali better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no top synergy for Akali that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 48.1%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Akali and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Caitlyn comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of engage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to synergize with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Akali and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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