Volibear vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Volibear
based on 4,733 Volibear vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Volibear in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Volibear vs. Akali matchup stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Volibear typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Volibear and Akali
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Who is Better, Volibear or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Volibear makes a bad counter to Akali.
While Volibear does have a lower win rate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Volibear also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Volibear into Akali.
Moreover, Volibear also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Volibear is a garbage counter for Akali. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Volibear against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order to counter Akali during both the early game 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 will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear on average gets a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Volibear versus Akali build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Akali than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Akali as Volibear, Volibear players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Volibear vs Akali face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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