Akshan vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Akshan
based on 2,555 Akshan vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Zed Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zed as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Akshan vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Akshan against Zed counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Akshan typically has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Zed
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Who is Better, Akshan or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when playing against Zed, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate compared to Zed, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Zed.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Zed matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Zed. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zed. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Akshan versus Zed build include Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better against Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Zed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Zed as Akshan, you should equip 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akshan vs Zed matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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