Gwen with Akshan
How to Synergize Gwen and Akshan
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Gwen Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Akshan
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.”
Gwen Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Gwen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen plays on the same team as Akshan, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may signal that Akshan does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Akshan on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Gwen during teamfights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal ally for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical teammate for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, they drops their win rate by -0.3% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Gwen and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Akshan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Gwen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Gwen and Akshan together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much engage potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Gwen and Akshan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Akshan than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Akshan with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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