Akshan vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Akshan
based on 4,244 Akshan vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Akali Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Akali as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Akali
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Akshan vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several critical Akshan against Akali counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Akshan usually has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Akali
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Who is Better, Akshan or Akali?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Akali.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Akali matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Akali. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Akali 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Akali build include Rapid Firecannon, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better vs Akali than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Akali as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Akshan vs Akali counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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