Akshan vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Akshan
based on 873 Akshan vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Akshan vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some critical Akshan vs. Kassadin counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Kassadin..
Akshan usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Akshan or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a great counter for Kassadin.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate compared to Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Kassadin.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Kassadin matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akshan is a great counter to Kassadin. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Kassadin build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs Kassadin than with most other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when playing against Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kassadin as Akshan, Akshan players 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Akshan vs Kassadin fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.8% winrate overall.
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