Taliyah vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Taliyah
based on 2,577 Taliyah vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Akali
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some significant Taliyah vs. Akali matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Taliyah often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Akali
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Akali?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Taliyah does have a higher win rate than Akali, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Akali.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Akali matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taliyah is a decent counter to Akali. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Taliyah versus Akali build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 50.4% battling Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Akali as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Taliyah vs Akali matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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