Akshan vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Akshan
based on 1,173 Akshan vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Akshan vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Akshan vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Alistar
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Who is Better, Akshan or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter for Alistar.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Alistar.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akshan is a bad counter to Alistar. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically racks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Akshan versus Alistar build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 46.2% when playing against Alistar with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Alistar 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Akshan vs Alistar fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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