Leona with Akali
How to Synergize Leona and Akali
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Leona Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Akali
Tips for Playing as Leona with Akali
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Akali, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change could signal that Akali does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Akali on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top synergy for Leona that will always be her best synergy. However, Akali is a very typical teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 51.2%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Leona and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players need to be very careful when finding Akali allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Leona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Leona and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Leona in order to work well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Leona and Akali synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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