Akali with Alistar
How to Synergize Akali and Alistar
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Akali Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Akali with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Akali Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Akali in LoL
The Akali Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali tries to synergize with Alistar, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Alistar does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Alistar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Akali that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a not very good companion for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Akali and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Alistar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Akali players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Akali and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other allies very much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Akali and Alistar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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