Akali vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Akali
based on 11,929 Akali vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Akali vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some critical Akali against Morgana matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between this pair of champs. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Morgana. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Morgana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Morgana
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Who is Better, Akali or Morgana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Morgana, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter to Morgana.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Morgana, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akali into Morganaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akali is a terribly counter for Morgana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Morgana.
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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 Morgana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically accumulates more CS as Morgana. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Akali versus Morgana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Morgana than with many other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Morgana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Morgana as Akali, Akali players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Akali vs Morgana counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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