Warwick vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Warwick
based on 10,179 Warwick vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Akali
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Warwick against Akali matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Warwick usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Akali
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Who is Better, Warwick or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Akali, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Warwick makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Warwick does have a higher winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Warwick also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Warwick into Akali.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick 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.
Warwick is a decent counter for Akali. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Akali during both the laning 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 stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average gets less CS as Akali. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Warwick versus Akali build include Sterak's Gage, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Akali as Warwick, Warwick players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Warwick vs Akali LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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