Akshan vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Akshan
based on 842 Akshan vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Akshan vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some valuable Akshan against Zilean counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Zilean
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Who is Better, Akshan or Zilean?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when trying to fight Zilean, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter to Zilean.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Zilean, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Zilean.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Zilean. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Zilean 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually accumulates more CS relative to Zilean. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Akshan versus Zilean build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better countering Zilean than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Zilean as Akshan, you 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Akshan vs Zilean counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zilean as Akshan are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.