Akali vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Akali
based on 2,577 Akali vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Akali vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Akali against Taliyah matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taliyah. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Akali often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Akali or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when facing off against Taliyah, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes an ok counter to Taliyah.
While Akali does have a lower winrate compared to Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Taliyahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Taliyah during both the lane 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akali versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Taliyah than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing against Taliyah with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Taliyah as Akali, you 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 rune sets players picked for Akali vs Taliyah counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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