Akali with Leona
How to Synergize Akali and Leona
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Akali Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Leona
Tips for Playing as Akali with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Akali Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Akali in LoL
The Akali Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Akali perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali tries to synergize with Leona, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Leona supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Leona on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top champion pairing for Akali that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Leona is a pretty good teammate for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, she raises their win rate by 2.1% to 51.2%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Akali and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Akali and Leona together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali in order to work well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Akali and Leona synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Akali players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Akali and Leona pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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