Brand vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Brand
based on 3,185 Brand vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Akali Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Akali as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Akali
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some important Brand vs. Akali counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Brand often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Akali
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Who is Better, Brand or Akali?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Brand makes a good counter to Akali.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Brand into Akali.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Akali matchups, Brand is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter for Akali. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average gets less CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Brand versus Akali build include Liandry's Anguish, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Demonic Embrace. When Brand included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Akali than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Akali as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Brand vs Akali face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
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