Akali with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Akali and Heimerdinger
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Akali Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Akali with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Akali Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Akali in LoL
The Akali Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Heimerdinger helps Akali perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Heimerdinger does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Akali and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you should be careful when arranging Heimerdinger teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Akali and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Akali and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should take 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 players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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