Illaoi with Akshan
How to Synergize Illaoi and Akshan
based on 979 Illaoi with Akshan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Akshan Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Akshan
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
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.”
Illaoi Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Illaoi perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Akshan, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Akshan doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with 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 alongside Akshan.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Akshan on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Akshan does a decent job of protecting Illaoi during teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Akshan
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no one best synergy for Illaoi that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, Akshan is a not very good companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, they decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Illaoi and Akshan that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Illaoi players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Illaoi and Akshan together, you will not be giving your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Illaoi and Akshan synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 47.5% helping carry Akshan with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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