Akali with Gwen
How to Synergize Akali and Gwen
based on 3,379 Akali with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Akali with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Akali Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Akali in LoL
The Akali Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Gwen, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Gwen doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Gwen on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, overall, Gwen is a not very good ally for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, she drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Akali and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gwen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Akali players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Akali and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Akali and Gwen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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