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Akali with K'Sante

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How to Synergize Akali and K'Sante

based on 3,004 Akali with K'Sante pairs
Win Rate
46.9 %
K/D/A
2.37
Pick Rate
1.3 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers take in the results of from millions of LoL games straight from Riot Games each and every week. Akali has fought alongside K'Sante in 3004 recently played, ranked games. By gathering so much great data straight from the creators of League of Legends, we are confident that we can provide you with robust, insightful builds to help Akali play with K'Sante. It is very rare for Akali to play alongside K'Sante as teammates. This pairing has only occurred in approximately 1.3% of games with Akali.

Akali K'Sante Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Akali does a terrible job of synergizing with K'Sante. Typically, she wins a poor 46.9% of games the champions fight together on the same side. If you want to maximize your potential as Akali when playing with K'Sante by figuring out how to better synergize your tactics with them, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Akali vs K'Sante Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Aether WispHextech Alternator

Core Akali Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapZhonya's HourglassStormsurge

Optional Items

Lich BaneVoid StaffShadowflameHextech Rocketbelt

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Akali to level upq
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Second ability for Akali to level upe
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Last skill for Akali to max outw

Runes

DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionUltimate Hunter
ResolveSecond WindOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Akali's passive ability p
Akali's q ability q
Akali's w ability w
Akali's e ability e
Akali's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
W
3
E
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and K'Sante

Tips for Playing as Akali with K'Sante

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 K'Sante Will Play

Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.

Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.

Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).

Akali K'Sante Synergy Stats

Akali Image
Win Rate
46.9 %
VS
Win Rate
53.1 %
K'Sante Image
9.1
< Kills >
9
6
< Deaths >
6
5.1
< Assists >
5.1
2.07
< Killing Sprees >
2.03
157
< Minions Killed >
155
0.04
< Dragons Killed >
0.05
0.35
< Inhibitors >
0.36
1,321
< Physical Damage >
1,335
22,046
< Magic Damage >
21,516
753
< True Damage >
759
24,121
< Damage Dealt >
23,611
26,661
< Damage Taken >
26,832
11,779
< Gold Earned >
11,741
1.45
< Towers >
1.46
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.01
3,287
< Total Healing >
3,315
14,237
< Experience >
14,415
17
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
71
< Time Dealing CC >
73

How to Play with K'Sante as Akali in LoL

The Akali K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that K'Sante helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Akali is an ally to K'Sante, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that K'Sante supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with K'Sante.

Additionally, when Akali plays with K'Sante on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that K'Sante does a decent job of covering Akali during teamfights.

Synergies between Akali and K'Sante

Damage Types Compared

Akali
K'Sante
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Akali
K'Sante

Is Akali better when played alongside K'Sante?

There is no ideal ally for Akali that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a below average ally for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, they lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Akali and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than alone.

K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players need to be careful when arranging K'Sante teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.

When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

In contrast, by bringing Akali and K'Sante together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.

Regardless of your K'Sante ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Akali Players

How We Calculated Our Akali K'Sante Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Akali and K'Sante, we analyzed 3,004 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Akali with K'Sante comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to truly master Akali to synergize with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The best items to focus on in your Akali and K'Sante synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of K'Sante than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in her kit.

To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.

If you would like to see Akali with K'Sante cooperations tips and stats for a an individual skill level, please select one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the statistics and tips and suggestions displayed are calculated using all games finished with both champs.