Akshan vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Akshan
based on 2,295 Akshan vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Akshan vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Akshan against Katarina counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between these two champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Akshan usually has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. On average, they receives less damage than Katarina. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Katarina
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Who is Better, Akshan or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually wins when playing against Katarina, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Katarina.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Katarina 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 teamfights.
Akshan is a decent counter for Katarina. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Katarina during both the early game 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 stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akshan versus Katarina build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did much better when facing Katarina than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Katarina with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Katarina as Akshan, you 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 sets that we analyzed for Akshan vs Katarina counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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