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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stats shown on this page show some significant Akali against Renekton matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Renekton’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Renekton. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Renekton. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when taking on Renekton, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a good counter to Renekton.
While Akali does have a higher win rate than Renekton, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akali into Renektonas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Renekton. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Renekton matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akali is a decent counter for Renekton. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Renekton.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Renekton 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 stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Renekton. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Akali versus Renekton build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Renekton than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Renekton with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Renekton as Akali, Akali players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Akali vs Renekton counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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