Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Ahri vs. Akshan matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akshan..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Akshan, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter for Akshan.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Akshan, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Akshan.
Additionally, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a trash counter for Akshan. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Akshan.
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Akshan 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akshan. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ahri versus Akshan build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Akshan than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Akshan with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Akshan as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Ahri vs Akshan counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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