Syndra vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Syndra
based on 4,740 Syndra vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Akali
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Syndra in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Syndra against Akali matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Syndra often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Akali
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Who is Better, Syndra or Akali?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Syndra usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Syndra makes a poor counter to Akali.
While Syndra does have a lower winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Syndra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Syndra into Akalias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Syndra is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Syndra to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Syndra versus Akali build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Akali with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Akali as Syndra, Syndra players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Syndra vs Akali counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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