Orianna vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Orianna
based on 3,025 Orianna vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Akali
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Orianna in LoL
The stats shown here feature several strategic Orianna against Akali counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Orianna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Akali
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Who is Better, Orianna or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a bad counter to Akali.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Orianna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Orianna into Akalias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Orianna is a terribly counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Orianna versus Akali build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Akali as Orianna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Orianna vs Akali LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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