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.
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
The Akali Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Draven helps Akali perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Draven, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Draven does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Draven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Draven.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Draven on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Draven does a decent job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Akali that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Draven is a very typical companion for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Akali and Draven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Draven has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players must be cautious when lining up Draven teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Draven together, you probably will not be granting your side enough engage potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Draven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to work well with Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Akali and Draven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Draven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Draven with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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