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.”
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Akshan Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Graves, they sees a barely noticable drop in their full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Graves doesn't help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Graves on the same side, they on average takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Graves does a poor job of protecting Akshan during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their top teammate. However, overall, Graves is a below average companion for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Akshan and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Akshan. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Akshan players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Akshan and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to synergize with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Akshan and Graves synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Graves with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akshan and Graves pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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