Akali vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Akali
based on 8,596 Akali vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Akali vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Akali versus Malphite counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between these two champions. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malphite. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Malphite
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Who is Better, Akali or Malphite?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when taking on Malphite, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Akali makes an ok counter for Malphite.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to Malphite, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Malphiteas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Malphite matchups, Akali is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akali is a decent counter to Malphite. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Malphite.
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How We Calculated Our Akali vs Malphite Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Malphite during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Malphite. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Akali versus Malphite build consist of Banshee's Veil, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 50.1% battling Malphite with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Malphite as Akali, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Malphite battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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