Akshan vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Akshan
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Akshan vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Akshan vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several important Akshan vs. Taliyah counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Akshan normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Akshan or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 52.1% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into Taliyah.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This 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 Taliyah matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a good counter to Taliyah. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of 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 Taliyah build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better countering Taliyah than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 52.1% battling Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Taliyah as Akshan, Akshan players should equip 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 players used for Akshan vs Taliyah counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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