Akali with Darius
How to Synergize Akali and Darius
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Akali Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Darius
Tips for Playing as Akali with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Akali Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Akali in LoL
The Akali Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Darius helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Darius, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This may signal that Darius supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Darius on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Darius?
There is no one best companion for Akali that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Darius is a very typical companion for Akali. By playing on the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.5%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Akali and Darius that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Darius comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Akali players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Akali and Darius together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali in order to work well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Akali and Darius synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Darius than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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