Katarina with Akshan
How to Synergize Katarina and Akshan
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Katarina Akshan Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Akshan
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.”
Katarina Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 worsening shows that Akshan helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Akshan, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Akshan provides cover for her to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akshan.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Akshan on the same side, she usually receives more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Akshan
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, they raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Katarina and Akshan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when lining up Akshan comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Katarina and Akshan together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of cover. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Katarina in order to work well with Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Katarina and Akshan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Akshan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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