Tristana vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Tristana
based on 8,030 Tristana vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Akali
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Tristana vs. Akali matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Tristana normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Akali
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Who is Better, Tristana or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Akali, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a bad counter for Akali.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Akali.
Furthermore, Tristana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Tristana 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 teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Akali build consist of Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Akali as Tristana, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tristana vs Akali counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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