Akshan with Darius
How to Synergize Akshan and Darius
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Akshan Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Darius
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Darius
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Akshan Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Akshan perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Darius, they observes a little drop in their complete damage output. This could signal that Darius does not help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Darius on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of protecting Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Darius?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Akshan that will always be their best synergy. Yet, overall, Darius is a terrible companion for Akshan. By playing on the same side as Akshan, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 45.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Akshan and Darius that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Darius has a greater difficulty than Akshan. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Darius allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Akshan and Darius together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Darius teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan to work well with Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Akshan and Darius synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Darius than with most other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Darius with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Akshan and Darius pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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