Caitlyn with Akali
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Akali
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Caitlyn Akali Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Akali
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Akali, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Akali supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Akali on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best ally for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Akali is a relatively poor companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same team as Caitlyn, she lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Caitlyn and Akali that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players must be cautious when arranging Akali comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Caitlyn and Akali together, you may not be providing your team much engage potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Caitlyn to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Caitlyn and Akali synergy build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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