Sejuani vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Sejuani
based on 2,368 Sejuani vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sejuani vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Sejuani vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Sejuani
Tips for Playing as Sejuani against Akali
Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
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.
Sejuani vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Sejuani in LoL
The stats shown here show some influential Sejuani versus Akali counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Sejuani normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sejuani and Akali
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Who is Better, Sejuani or Akali?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sejuani usually loses when taking on Akali, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Sejuani makes a bad counter to Akali.
While Sejuani does have a lower winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Sejuani also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Sejuani into Akali.
Moreover, Sejuani also 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 isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sejuani vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sejuani is a trash counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sejuani against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sejuani to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani typically accumulates a lot less CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Sejuani versus Akali build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Sejuani used at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Akali than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sejuani boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Akali as Sejuani, Sejuani players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sejuani vs Akali battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Akali as Sejuani are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.