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.”
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Akshan against Rell counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rell’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Rell. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Rell. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when trying to fight Rell, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter to Rell.
While Akshan does have a much lower winrate than Rell, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akshan into Rell.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a trash counter for Rell. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Rell.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Rell 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 mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often gets much more CS as Rell. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Akshan versus Rell build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Rell than with many other common builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 45.9% battling Rell with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Rell 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akshan vs Rell clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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