Akshan vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Akshan
based on 2,450 Akshan vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Darius Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Darius as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Darius
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Akshan vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Akshan versus Darius counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Darius..
Akshan often has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. On average, they receives less damage than Darius. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Darius?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Darius, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a poor counter for Darius.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Darius.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. 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 Akshan vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Darius. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Darius. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Akshan versus Darius build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better versus Darius than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 48.5% when countering Darius with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Darius as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Akshan vs Darius counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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