Quinn vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Quinn
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Quinn vs Akali Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Akali as Quinn
Tips for Playing as Quinn against Akali
Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
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.
Quinn vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Quinn in LoL
The stats shown here feature some significant Quinn versus Akali matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Quinn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Quinn may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Quinn often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Quinn or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Quinn usually fairs equally well when playing against Akali, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Quinn makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Quinn does have a higher winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Quinn also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Quinn into Akali.
Furthermore, Quinn 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Quinn vs Akali matchups, Quinn is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Quinn is a decent counter to Akali. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Quinn against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Quinn in order to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Quinn most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Quinn versus Akali build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Quinn combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Akali than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Quinn boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Akali as Quinn, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Quinn vs Akali clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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