Akshan with Alistar
How to Synergize Akshan and Alistar
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Akshan Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Alistar
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Akshan Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Alistar, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage output. This could signal that Alistar provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Alistar on the same team, they usually receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their top ally. Yet, Alistar is a below average companion for Akshan. By being on the same team as Akshan, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Akshan and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players need to be very careful when lining up Alistar allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Akshan players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Akshan and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Akshan in order to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Akshan and Alistar synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 46.7% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
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