Akali with Nami
How to Synergize Akali and Nami
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Akali Nami Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Nami
Tips for Playing as Akali with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Akali Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Akali in LoL
The Akali Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nami helps Akali perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Nami, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This could indicate that Nami helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nami.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Nami on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nami does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Nami is a very typical ally for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, she improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Akali and Nami that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when finding Nami teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Akali players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Nami together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to pair well with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Akali and Nami synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Nami with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akali and Nami pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nami with Akali are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.