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.
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
The Akali Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jhin helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is paired with Jhin, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This change could signal that Jhin provides 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 Jhin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Jhin. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Jhin.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Jhin on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Jhin does a poor job of covering Akali in teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akali that will always be her top ally. However, overall, Jhin is a very typical companion for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.0%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Akali and Jhin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Jhin has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when finding Jhin teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Akali players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Akali and Jhin together, you may not be granting your team a lot of engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Jhin teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Akali in order to work well with Jhin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Akali and Jhin synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Akali combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Jhin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Jhin with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akali players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akali and Jhin pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Jhin with Akali are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.