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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Akali Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Azir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Azir helps Akali perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Azir, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Azir does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Azir on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Azir.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Azir on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Azir does a poor job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Akali that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Azir is a very bad ally for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Akali and Azir that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you need to be cautious when finding Azir comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Akali players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Azir together, you may not be providing your other allies much protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Azir ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to work well with Azir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Akali and Azir synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Azir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akali and Azir pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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