Kai'Sa vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Kai'Sa
based on 11,573 Kai'Sa vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Akali
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Kai'Sa vs. Akali counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Kai'Sa usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Akali
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually fairs equally well when playing against Akali, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Akali.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Akali during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Akali build consist of Crown of the Shattered Queen, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Akali as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ravenous Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kai'Sa vs Akali fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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