Irelia vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Irelia
based on 6,331 Irelia vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Akali
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Irelia versus Akali counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Irelia often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Akali
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Who is Better, Irelia or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually loses when playing against Akali, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes a poor counter to Akali.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Irelia also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Akali.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Irelia against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Irelia
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Irelia versus Akali build include Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Akali as Irelia, Irelia players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Irelia vs Akali LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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