Akali vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Akali
based on 3,129 Akali vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Naafiri
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Akali vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Akali versus Naafiri counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Naafiri..
Akali normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Naafiri. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Akali or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Naafiri, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a poor counter for Naafiri.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Naafirias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Naafiri. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Naafiri during both the lane 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 here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Naafiri. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Akali versus Naafiri build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Naafiri than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Naafiri as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Akali vs Naafiri fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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