Annie with Akali
How to Synergize Annie and Akali
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Annie Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Akali
Tips for Playing as Annie with Akali
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Annie in LoL
The Annie Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her 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 Annie perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Akali, she gets a measurable drop in her total damage output. This may indicate that Akali does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Akali on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Akali does a decent job of covering Annie in team fights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top companion for Annie that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Akali is a terrible teammate for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, she lowers their win rate by -5.2% to 44.1%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Annie and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players need to be very careful when lining up Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Annie players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Annie and Akali together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of engage potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Annie in order to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Annie and Akali synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Akali than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 44.1% helping carry Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
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