Akali vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Akali
based on 1,973 Akali vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Akali vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Akali versus Cassiopeia counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Akali often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Akali or Cassiopeia?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Akali makes an ok counter for Cassiopeia.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Cassiopeiaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Cassiopeia matchups, Akali is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akali is a decent counter to Cassiopeia. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akali versus Cassiopeia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Cassiopeia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Cassiopeia as Akali, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Akali vs Cassiopeia battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Cassiopeia as Akali are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.