Akshan with Twitch
How to Synergize Akshan and Twitch
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Akshan Twitch Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Twitch
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Twitch
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 Twitch Will Play
Contaminate has a large range; apply as many stacks of Deadly Venom as possible before using it.
You can catch up to an enemy out of attack range with Venom Cask.
Twitch's Attack Speed is among the highest in the game; try purchasing items with on-hit effects such as Black Cleaver or Wit's End.
Akshan Twitch Synergy Stats
How to Play with Twitch as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Twitch synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Twitch, 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 Twitch. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Twitch helps Akshan perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is paired with Twitch, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This may indicate that Twitch helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Twitch on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Twitch. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Twitch.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Twitch on the same side, they on average receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Twitch does a poor job of covering Akshan during teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Twitch?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Akshan that will always be their ideal synergy. However, overall, Twitch is a decent ally for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Akshan and Twitch that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Twitch has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you should be very careful when lining up Twitch teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Akshan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Akshan and Twitch together, you may not be giving your side enough protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Twitch ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to work well with Twitch during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Akshan and Twitch synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Twitch than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Twitch with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Akshan players should equip 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Akshan and Twitch pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Twitch with Akshan are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.