Yone vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Yone
based on 15,646 Yone vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Yone
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.
Yone vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Yone in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Yone against Akali matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Yone typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Akali. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yone and Akali
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Who is Better, Yone or Akali?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Yone makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Yone does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yone into Akalias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yone 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Yone versus Akali build consist of Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yone used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Akali as Yone, Yone players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Yone vs Akali counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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