Akali vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Akali
based on 10,776 Akali vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Akali vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Akali versus Hwei matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Hwei. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Hwei. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Hwei
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Who is Better, Akali or Hwei?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when playing against Hwei, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a great counter to Hwei.
While Akali does have a higher win rate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Akali into Hweias her relative depth means that 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 Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Hwei matchups, Akali is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akali is a great counter to Hwei. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Hwei. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akali versus Hwei build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Hwei than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 53.7% when countering Hwei with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Hwei as Akali, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Akali vs Hwei counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hwei as Akali are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.