Akali with Wukong
How to Synergize Akali and Wukong
based on 2,412 Akali with Wukong pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Akali with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Akali Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Akali in LoL
The Akali Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Wukong helps Akali perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Wukong, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Wukong does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Wukong 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 with Wukong.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Wukong on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Wukong does a decent job of covering Akali during team fights.
Synergies between Akali and Wukong
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Is Akali better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Akali that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, overall, Wukong is a very typical companion for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Akali and Wukong that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when finding Wukong allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Akali players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Akali and Wukong together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Wukong teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Wukong during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Akali and Wukong synergy build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Wukong than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Wukong with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akali and Wukong pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Wukong with Akali are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.