Akshan with Irelia
How to Synergize Akshan and Irelia
based on 945 Akshan with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akshan Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Akshan vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Akshan Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Irelia, they observes a barely noticable drop in their full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Irelia on the same side, they often receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Akshan during teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best companion for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their ideal ally. However, overall, Irelia is a terrible ally for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, she drops their win rate by -4.2% to 44.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Akshan and Irelia that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Irelia has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you need to be cautious when finding Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by grouping Akshan and Irelia together, you probably will not be granting your side very much tankyness. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To truly master Akshan to synergize with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Akshan and Irelia synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 44.8% helping carry Irelia with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan and Irelia pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.8% win rate overall.
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