Akshan vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Akshan
based on 636 Akshan vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Akshan vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several important Akshan versus Kalista counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Kalista..
Akshan typically has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Kalista
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Who is Better, Akshan or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Kalista.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Kalista matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well 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 do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Kalista build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Kalista with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Kalista as Akshan, you should equip 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan vs Kalista counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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