Nami with Akali
How to Synergize Nami and Akali
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Nami Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Akali
Tips for Playing as Nami with Akali
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Nami perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami tries to synergize with Akali, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Akali provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami 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 Nami plays with Akali on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Nami during team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best synergy for Nami that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a very typical ally for Nami. By playing on the same side as Nami, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Nami and Akali that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players must be cautious when enlisting Akali allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nami players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nami and Akali together, you will not be granting your team much cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nami in order to pair well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Nami and Akali synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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