Heimerdinger with Akali
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Akali
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Heimerdinger Akali Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Akali
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Akali
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Akali, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Akali does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Akali on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Akali does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Akali
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Akali?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same team as Heimerdinger, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Akali that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Heimerdinger and Akali together, you may not be providing your side much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Heimerdinger and Akali synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Akali than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Heimerdinger and Akali pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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