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.
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
The Akali Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, 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 Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shyvana helps Akali perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali tries to synergize with Shyvana, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shyvana does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Shyvana 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 synergisticly with Shyvana.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Shyvana on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Shyvana does a decent job of protecting Akali in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Akali that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Shyvana is a very typical ally for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Akali and Shyvana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when arranging Shyvana teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Akali players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Shyvana together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Akali to pair well with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Akali and Shyvana synergy build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Shyvana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Shyvana with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Akali players should equip 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 used for Akali and Shyvana pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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