Akali with Lux
How to Synergize Akali and Lux
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Akali Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Lux
Tips for Playing as Akali with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Akali Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Akali in LoL
The Akali Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lux helps Akali perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Lux, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Lux does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Lux on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Lux. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Lux.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Lux on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Lux does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Lux?
There is no one best companion for Akali that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, Lux is a very typical companion for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 48.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Akali and Lux that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when finding Lux comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Akali and Lux together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Lux teammate, you need to focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to synergize with Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akali and Lux synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Lux than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Bone Plating runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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