Akshan with Gwen
How to Synergize Akshan and Gwen
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Akshan Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Akshan Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Akshan perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan is paired with Gwen, they observes a barely noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Gwen does not help cover for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Gwen on the same team, they often receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best companion for Akshan that will no matter what be their #1 ally. Yet, Gwen is a not very good companion for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Akshan and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gwen has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Akshan and Gwen together, you will not be providing your team much cover. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Gwen 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
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to pair well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Akshan and Gwen synergy build consist of Rapid Firecannon, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan used at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better when paired up with Gwen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.8% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Akshan players 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 runes that we analyzed for Akshan and Gwen pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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