Akali with Kassadin
How to Synergize Akali and Kassadin
based on 439 Akali with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Akali with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Akali Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Akali in LoL
The Akali Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Kassadin, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This may indicate that Kassadin doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Kassadin 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 Kassadin.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Kassadin on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kassadin does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
Synergies between Akali and Kassadin
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Is Akali better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Akali that will always be her best teammate. However, Kassadin is a terrible ally for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 45.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Akali and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you should be careful when lining up Kassadin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Akali and Kassadin together, you will not be providing your team much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to pair well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Akali and Kassadin synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 45.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Akali players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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