Brand with Akali
How to Synergize Brand and Akali
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Brand Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Akali
Tips for Playing as Brand with Akali
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Brand Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Brand in LoL
The Brand Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Brand perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Akali, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Akali does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Akali on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Brand that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Brand and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you must be careful when lining up Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Brand and Akali together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Brand and Akali synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand and Akali pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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