Akali vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Akali
based on 10,737 Akali vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Akali vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Akali vs. Kayn matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kayn..
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Kayn
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Who is Better, Akali or Kayn?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kayn, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Akali makes an ok counter for Kayn.
While Akali does have a lower winrate than Kayn, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Kaynas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Kayn. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually picks up much more CS as Kayn. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Akali versus Kayn build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Kayn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.7% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kayn as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Akali vs Kayn counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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