Alistar with Akali
How to Synergize Alistar and Akali
based on 3,776 Alistar with Akali pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Akali Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Akali
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Akali
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
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.
Alistar Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Akali does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Akali on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Akali does a decent job of covering Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Akali is a relatively poor teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -2.2% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Alistar and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Akali comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Alistar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Akali together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar in order to pair well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Alistar and Akali synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar and Akali pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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