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.”
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
The Akshan Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kassadin helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan tries to synergize with Kassadin, they gets a moderate decrease in their complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kassadin doesn't help cover for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Kassadin on the same team, they often receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Akshan in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Akshan that will always be their ideal synergy. Yet, Kassadin is a very typical teammate for Akshan. By locking into the same team as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Akshan and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players should be very careful when enlisting Kassadin allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Akshan players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akshan and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your team much AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Akshan and Kassadin synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
If you want to view Akshan and Kassadin synergy tips and builds for a a specific division rank, feel free to select one from the selection menu provided above. By default, the statistics and guides displayed are calculated using all rounds played with both champs.