Akshan vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Akshan
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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
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
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.
Akshan vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some vital Akshan vs. Irelia matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Irelia..
Akshan often has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Irelia
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Who is Better, Akshan or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Irelia, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter for Irelia.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Irelia.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion 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 allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akshan versus Irelia build include Kraken Slayer, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 48.7% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Irelia as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Akshan vs Irelia face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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