Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
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.”
The Cassiopeia Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Cassiopeia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Cassiopeia perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cassiopeia is an ally to Akshan, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Akshan provides cover for her to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Cassiopeia is played alongside Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Cassiopeia plays with Akshan on the same side, she often receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of covering Cassiopeia during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Cassiopeia that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical teammate for Cassiopeia. By playing on the same side as Cassiopeia, they lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 49.3%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Cassiopeia and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Cassiopeia. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Cassiopeia and Akshan together, you may not be providing your team much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, 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.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia in order to work well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Cassiopeia and Akshan synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Cassiopeia incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akshan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Cassiopeia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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