Lux with Akali
How to Synergize Lux and Akali
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Lux Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Akali
Tips for Playing as Lux with Akali
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a very large drop 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 Lux perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux is an ally to Akali, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Akali does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Akali.
Moreover, when Lux plays with Akali on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Akali does a decent job of protecting Lux during team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Akali?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Lux that will always be her best synergy. However, Akali is a very typical teammate for Lux. By playing on the same team as Lux, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.8%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Lux and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means you need to be cautious when finding Akali teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lux players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lux and Akali together, you will not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Lux to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Lux and Akali synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Horizon Focus. When Lux incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Lux players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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