Vi with Akali
How to Synergize Vi and Akali
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Vi Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Akali
Tips for Playing as Vi with Akali
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Vi perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is an ally to Akali, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Akali does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Akali on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Vi during team fights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top champion pairing for Vi that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Vi. By playing on the same side as Vi, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Vi and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means you should be careful when lining up Akali comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Vi and Akali together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Vi in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Vi and Akali synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Vi bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Vi had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Akali with Vi are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.