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 stats shown here clarify several strategic Akshan vs. Sett matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Sett..
Akshan usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Sett. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Sett, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter to Sett.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Sett, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Sett.
Furthermore, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sett. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Sett. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Sett.
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Sett during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sett. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Akshan versus Sett build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Sett than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing against Sett with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Sett as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Akshan vs Sett battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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