Akali with Lucian
How to Synergize Akali and Lucian
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Akali Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Akali with Lucian
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.
Advice to Understand How Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Akali Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Akali in LoL
The Akali Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Akali perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Lucian, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could signal that Lucian supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Lucian 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 Lucian.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Lucian on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Lucian is a very typical ally for Akali. By being on the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Akali and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Lucian teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Akali and Lucian together, you probably will not be giving your team very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Akali and Lucian synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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