Katarina vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Katarina
based on 8,689 Katarina vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Akali
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Katarina versus Akali counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Katarina normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Akali
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Who is Better, Katarina or Akali?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Akali, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Akalias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Katarina vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Akali build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 49.2% battling Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Akali as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Katarina vs Akali counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Akali as Katarina are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.