Poppy with Akshan
How to Synergize Poppy and Akshan
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Poppy Akshan Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Akshan
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 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.”
Poppy Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Poppy perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is paired with Akshan, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Akshan doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akshan.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Akshan on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Akshan
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top companion for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical ally for Poppy. By being on the same team as Poppy, they lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Poppy and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means Poppy players don't need to be careful when enlisting Akshan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Poppy players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Akshan together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy in order to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Poppy and Akshan synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Akshan with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Poppy and Akshan pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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