Akali vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Akali
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Akali vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Akali vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several vital Akali versus Rengar counter stats that may help you explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rengar..
Akali normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Rengar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Rengar
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Who is Better, Akali or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Rengar, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a bad counter to Rengar.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Rengar, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Rengaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Rengar. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average gets much more CS compared to Rengar. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus Rengar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Rengar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.6% battling Rengar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Rengar as Akali, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Akali vs Rengar battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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