Shaco with Akali
How to Synergize Shaco and Akali
based on 7,914 Shaco with Akali pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Akali Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Akali Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Akali
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Akali
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akali helps Shaco perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco tries to synergize with Akali, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Akali does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Akali on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Akali
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Akali is a not very good ally for Shaco. By being on the same side as Shaco, she decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Shaco and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be careful when enlisting Akali teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Shaco and Akali together, you may not be granting your side much utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shaco and Akali synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Shaco included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shaco and Akali pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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