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.”
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
The Akshan Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Akshan perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Nautilus, they gets a small increase in their full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nautilus provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Nautilus on the same team, they usually receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Akshan during teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Akshan that will no matter what be their best synergy. However, overall, Nautilus is a below average teammate for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Akshan and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players need to be very careful when lining up Nautilus allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Akshan and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Akshan and Nautilus synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akshan and Nautilus pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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