Akshan with Naafiri
How to Synergize Akshan and Naafiri
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Akshan Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Naafiri
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.”
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Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
Akshan Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Naafiri helps Akshan perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Naafiri, they sees a marginal improvement in their full damage output. This change may signal that Naafiri provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Naafiri 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 Naafiri.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Naafiri on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Naafiri does a poor job of protecting Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Akshan that will always be their ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a pretty good teammate for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, they improves their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Akshan and Naafiri that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Naafiri has a greater difficulty than Akshan. That means you must be very careful when lining up Naafiri allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Akshan players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Akshan and Naafiri together, you will not be giving your team much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Akshan and Naafiri synergy build include Kraken Slayer, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan used at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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