Akali with Varus
How to Synergize Akali and Varus
based on 8,804 Akali with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Varus Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Varus
Tips for Playing as Akali with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Akali Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Akali in LoL
The Akali Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Varus, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Varus doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Varus on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Akali during teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Varus
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Is Akali better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best ally for Akali that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, overall, Varus is a very typical teammate for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Akali and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Varus teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Akali players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Varus together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to work well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Akali and Varus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Varus with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Akali players should use 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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