Xayah vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Xayah
based on 3,767 Xayah vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Akali
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Xayah vs. Akali counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Xayah usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Akali
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Who is Better, Xayah or Akali?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Xayah makes a bad counter to Akali.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate than Akali, when facing one another, Xayah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Akali.
Furthermore, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xayah versus Akali build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Phantom Dancer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Akali than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Akali as Xayah, Xayah players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Xayah vs Akali counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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