Akshan with Leona
How to Synergize Akshan and Leona
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Akshan Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Leona
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Akshan Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Akshan perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Leona, they observes a small increase in their full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Leona provides protection for them to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Leona on the same side, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of protecting Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best companion for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their best synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a fantastic companion for Akshan. By playing on the same team as Akshan, she improves their win rate by 3.6% to 52.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an important bond between Akshan and Leona that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Leona has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players must be careful when enlisting Leona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Akshan and Leona together, you will not be granting your side enough magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akshan to synergize with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Akshan and Leona synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Akshan included at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Akshan players should use 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 sets we have analyed for Akshan and Leona pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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