Draven with Akali
How to Synergize Draven and Akali
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Draven Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Draven and Akali
Tips for Playing as Draven with Akali
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
Draven Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Draven in LoL
The Draven 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, Draven sees a large worsening in his 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 Draven perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Draven is an ally to Akali, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Akali helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Draven plays with Akali on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of protecting Draven in teamfights.
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Is Draven better when played alongside Akali?
There is no perfect companion for Draven that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Akali is a very typical teammate for Draven. By being on the same side as Draven, she drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Draven and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Draven. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akali comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Draven and Akali together, you may not be providing your team very much cover. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Draven in order to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Draven and Akali synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Hubris. When Draven used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Draven boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Draven players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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