Akali with Rakan
How to Synergize Akali and Rakan
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Akali Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Akali with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Akali Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Akali in LoL
The Akali Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Rakan, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rakan helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Rakan 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 alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Rakan on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of covering Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Akali that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Rakan is a pretty good teammate for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Akali and Rakan that results in them performing better together than alone.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when lining up Rakan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Akali and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Akali and Rakan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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