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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Akali Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Master Yi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Master Yi helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Master Yi, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Master Yi doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Master Yi.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Master Yi on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akali that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Master Yi is a pretty good teammate for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Akali and Master Yi that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when lining up Master Yi allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Akali players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Akali and Master Yi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Master Yi ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Akali in order to pair well with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra 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 top finished items to prioritize in your Akali and Master Yi synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Akali players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Akali and Master Yi pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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