Poppy with Akali
How to Synergize Poppy and Akali
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Poppy Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Akali
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Akali
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy tries to synergize with Akali, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Akali does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Akali on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Akali
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Akali is a very typical teammate for Poppy. By locking into the same side as Poppy, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 49.3%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Poppy and Akali that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means you should be careful when enlisting Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Poppy players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Poppy and Akali together, you will not be providing your side enough magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to pair well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Poppy and Akali synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing alongside Akali with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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