Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia 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 negative change shows that Akshan helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is paired with Akshan, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Akshan does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Akshan on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Akshan does a decent job of covering Irelia in team fights.
There is no top companion for Irelia that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Akshan is a terrible ally for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, they lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 44.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Irelia and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be cautious when finding Akshan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Irelia players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Akshan together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to synergize with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Irelia and Akshan synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 44.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Akshan with Irelia are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.