Akshan vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Akshan
based on 778 Akshan vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Akshan vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Akshan against Cassiopeia matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Akshan often has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Akshan or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter to Cassiopeia.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Cassiopeia.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia 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 team fights.
Akshan is a garbage counter for Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Cassiopeia 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often gets a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Akshan versus Cassiopeia build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better versus Cassiopeia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing against Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Cassiopeia as Akshan, you should take 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 runes that we analyzed for Akshan vs Cassiopeia fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Cassiopeia as Akshan are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.