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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Akali against Trundle matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Trundle. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Trundle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when facing off against Trundle, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter for Trundle.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Trundle, when facing one another, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Trundleas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akali is a bad counter to Trundle. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Trundle.
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Trundle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Trundle. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akali versus Trundle build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Akali combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Trundle than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Trundle with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Trundle as Akali, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Akali vs Trundle fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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