Akshan vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Akshan
based on 1,158 Akshan vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Akshan vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Akshan versus Heimerdinger counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger..
Akshan often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Akshan or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a poor counter for Heimerdinger.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a trash counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan versus Heimerdinger build consist of Kraken Slayer, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Heimerdinger as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Akshan vs Heimerdinger face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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