Kayn with Akali
How to Synergize Kayn and Akali
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Kayn Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Akali
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Akali
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is paired with Akali, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Akali doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Akali on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Akali on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kayn that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Akali is a very typical teammate for Kayn. By playing on the same team as Kayn, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Kayn and Akali that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be careful when lining up Akali comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Kayn and Akali together, you will not be giving your other allies very much support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to work well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Kayn and Akali synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Eclipse. When Kayn combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kayn players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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