Lux vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Lux
based on 23,733 Lux vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Akali
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several critical Lux against Akali counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akali. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Lux typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Akali
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Who is Better, Lux or Akali?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Lux makes an ok counter for Akali.
While Lux does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Lux into Akali.
Furthermore, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Akali matchups, Lux is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often picks up less CS compared to Akali. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Lux versus Akali build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Luden's Companion. When Lux incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Akali as Lux, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lux vs Akali battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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