Diana with Akali
How to Synergize Diana and Akali
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Diana Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Diana and Akali
Tips for Playing as Diana with Akali
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Diana in LoL
The Diana 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, Diana 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 fall shows that Akali helps Diana perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Diana plays on the same team as Akali, she sees a measurable drop in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Akali does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Diana is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Diana plays with Akali on the same side, she usually takes more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Diana during teamfights.
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Is Diana better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Diana that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Akali is a terrible teammate for Diana. By locking into the same team as Diana, she decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 46.5%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Diana and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Diana. That means Diana players should be careful when enlisting Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Diana players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Diana and Akali together, you will not be providing your side enough utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Diana to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Diana and Akali synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 46.5% helping carry Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Diana players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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