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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Akali Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Xerath, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This could indicate that Xerath doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Xerath 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 synergisticly with Xerath.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Xerath on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Akali during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Akali that will always be her top teammate. However, Xerath is a very typical companion for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 49.7%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Akali and Xerath that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players need to be very careful when arranging Xerath comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Akali and Xerath together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to pair well with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Akali and Xerath synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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 sets we have analyed for Akali and Xerath pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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