Akshan vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Akshan
based on 2,043 Akshan vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Akshan vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Akshan against Irelia counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Irelia..
Akshan usually has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Typically, they takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Irelia?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Akshan into Irelia.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a trash counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan to counter Irelia 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 displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akshan versus Irelia build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when fighting Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Irelia as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Akshan vs Irelia LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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