Kha'Zix vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Kha'Zix
based on 6,266 Kha'Zix vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Akali Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Akali as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Akali
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Kha'Zix against Akali matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Kha'Zix often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Akali. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Akali?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kha'Zix usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Akali, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Kha'Zix makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Kha'Zix does have a lower win rate compared to Akali, when facing one another, Kha'Zix also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kha'Zix into Akali.
Moreover, Kha'Zix has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Kha'Zix is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kha'Zix against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kha'Zix 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix often picks up a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kha'Zix versus Akali build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Kha'Zix incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Akali than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kha'Zix had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Akali as Kha'Zix, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kha'Zix vs Akali counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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