Kassadin with Akali
How to Synergize Kassadin and Akali
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Kassadin Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Akali
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Akali
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin 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 worsening shows that Akali helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Akali, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Akali doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Akali on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Kassadin during teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Akali
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal companion for Kassadin that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Akali is a terrible companion for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, she lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 45.8%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Kassadin and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when lining up Akali comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Kassadin and Akali together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Kassadin and Akali synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 45.8% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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