Soraka vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Soraka
based on 5,315 Soraka vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Akali
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Soraka against Akali counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Soraka often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Akali
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Who is Better, Soraka or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when playing against Akali, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes an ok counter for Akali.
While Soraka does have a lower winrate than Akali, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Akali.
Moreover, Soraka has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Soraka against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Soraka 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Soraka versus Akali build include Warmog's Armor, Redemption, and Dream Maker. When Soraka bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Akali as Soraka, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Soraka vs Akali clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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