Shaco with Akshan
How to Synergize Shaco and Akshan
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Shaco Akshan Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Akshan
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.”
Shaco Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Akshan, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Akshan provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akshan.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Akshan on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal companion for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Akshan is a below average ally for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, they lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shaco and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Akshan allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Shaco players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Shaco and Akshan together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of tankyness. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Shaco and Akshan synergy build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Akshan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Shaco players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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