Akali vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Akali
based on 4,733 Akali vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Volibear
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.
Akali vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Akali in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Akali vs. Volibear matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Volibear. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Volibear. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Volibear
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Who is Better, Akali or Volibear?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when facing off against Volibear, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a good counter for Volibear.
While Akali does have a higher winrate compared to Volibear, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Akali into Volibearas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Volibear matchups, Akali is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a good counter for Volibear. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often gets a similar amount of CS as Volibear. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akali versus Volibear build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Volibear than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when countering Volibear with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Volibear as Akali, Akali players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akali vs Volibear matchups, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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