Azir vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Azir
based on 969 Azir vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Akali
Be a bird!
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Azir vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Azir versus Akali counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Azir often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Akali
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Who is Better, Azir or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when playing against Akali, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Azir makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Azir does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually gets a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Azir versus Akali build include Liandry's Anguish, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Akali than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Akali as Azir, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Azir vs Akali LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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