Akali vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Akali
based on 3,237 Akali vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Akali vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Akali against Jarvan IV matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Jarvan IV. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Jarvan IV. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Akali or Jarvan IV?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when taking on Jarvan IV, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter to Jarvan IV.
While Akali does have a higher win rate than Jarvan IV, when facing one another, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Jarvan IVas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Jarvan IV matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a decent counter for Jarvan IV. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically accumulates much more CS compared to Jarvan IV. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Akali versus Jarvan IV build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Jarvan IV than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Jarvan IV as Akali, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Jarvan IV counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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