Akali vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Akali
based on 2,008 Akali vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Akali vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Akali against Kalista matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Akali often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Kalista
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Who is Better, Akali or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Kalistaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Kalista matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akali is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Kalista than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 51.5% battling Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kalista 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 combinations players chose for Akali vs Kalista fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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