Brand with Akshan
How to Synergize Brand and Akshan
based on 4,706 Brand with Akshan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Brand with Akshan
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
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.”
Brand Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Brand in LoL
The Brand Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Brand sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Brand perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand tries to synergize with Akshan, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Akshan supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Akshan on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Brand that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical ally for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, they lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 51.2%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Brand and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Brand. That means Brand players don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Brand players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Akshan together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Brand and Akshan synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Akshan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Brand and Akshan pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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