Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several valuable Yuumi versus Akali matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Akali, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Yuumi does have a higher win rate than Akali, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Yuumi into Akali.
Additionally, Yuumi has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Akali matchups, Yuumi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yuumi is a decent counter for Akali. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Akali.
If you would like to truly master Yuumi 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi often racks up a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Yuumi versus Akali build include Moonstone Renewer, Chemtech Putrifier, and Ardent Censer. When Yuumi bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yuumi had an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Akali with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Akali as Yuumi, Yuumi players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Presence of Mind, and Cut Down runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Yuumi vs Akali face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Akali as Yuumi are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.