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.”
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Akshan Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vladimir helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is paired with Vladimir, they gets a barely noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Vladimir does not provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Vladimir 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 alongside Vladimir.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Vladimir on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Akshan in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Akshan that will no matter what be their best ally. Yet, overall, Vladimir is a good teammate for Akshan. By playing on the same side as Akshan, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.5%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Akshan and Vladimir that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you should be cautious when lining up Vladimir allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Akshan and Vladimir together, you will not be granting your team much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Akshan and Vladimir synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Vladimir with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Akshan players should use 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Vladimir with Akshan are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.