Akali with Orianna
How to Synergize Akali and Orianna
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Akali Orianna Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Akali with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Akali Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Akali in LoL
The Akali Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Orianna, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Orianna helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Orianna on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of covering Akali during teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Orianna
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Is Akali better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no one best champion pairing for Akali that will always be her top synergy. However, Orianna is a terrible teammate for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, she drops their win rate by -6.0% to 43.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Akali and Orianna that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when arranging Orianna teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Akali players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Akali and Orianna together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of tankyness. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Orianna 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 should 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 synergize with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Akali and Orianna synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 43.1% when playing alongside Orianna with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.1% win rate overall.
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