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.
Focus on dodging Wild Cards early when your champion doesn't have the hit points to afford getting hit.
If you have low Health, use Destiny as an indicator to run to safety. It will give you a head start in escaping any possible ganks.
The stats shown on this page underscore several significant Akali against Twisted Fate matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Twisted Fate’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Twisted Fate. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Twisted Fate. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when taking on Twisted Fate, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a bad counter for Twisted Fate.
While Akali does have a lower winrate compared to Twisted Fate, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Twisted Fateas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Twisted Fate. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Twisted Fate matchups, Twisted Fate is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akali is a trash counter for Twisted Fate. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Twisted Fate.
If you would like to truly master Akali to counter Twisted Fate during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to 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 most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Twisted Fate. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Akali versus Twisted Fate build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Twisted Fate than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when playing against Twisted Fate with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Twisted Fate as Akali, Akali players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Akali vs Twisted Fate counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Twisted Fate as Akali are given for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.