Kalista with Akshan
How to Synergize Kalista and Akshan
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Kalista Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Akshan
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.”
Kalista Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Kalista perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Akshan, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This could indicate that Akshan supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Akshan on the same team, 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 with Akshan.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Akshan on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Akshan
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal synergy for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Akshan is a not very good companion for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, they drops their win rate by -2.0% to 45.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Kalista and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Akshan comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Kalista and Akshan together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Kalista and Akshan synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Akshan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 45.4% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Kalista players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.4% win rate overall.
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