Akali vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Akali
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Akali vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Anivia
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 Win Against Anivia
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Akali vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Akali versus Anivia matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Anivia..
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Anivia
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Who is Better, Akali or Anivia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when taking on Anivia, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes an ok counter to Anivia.
While Akali does have a lower winrate than Anivia, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Aniviaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Anivia. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually gets a similar amount of CS as Anivia. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Akali versus Anivia build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Anivia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Anivia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Anivia as Akali, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Akali vs Anivia LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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