Blitzcrank vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Blitzcrank
based on 8,862 Blitzcrank vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Akali
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Advice to Win Against Akali
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.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Blitzcrank vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Blitzcrank versus Akali matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Akali
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when facing off against Akali, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Blitzcrank makes a great counter to Akali.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher winrate than Akali, when they face off with one another, Blitzcrank also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Blitzcrank into Akali.
Additionally, Blitzcrank also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Akali matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Blitzcrank is a great counter to Akali. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Blitzcrank against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank usually accumulates a lot less CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Akali build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Blitzcrank incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Akali than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average win rate of 53.3% battling Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Akali as Blitzcrank, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Blitzcrank vs Akali counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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