Akshan vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Akshan
based on 2,358 Akshan vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Akshan vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Akshan against Tristana matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Tristana..
Akshan often has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Tristana
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Who is Better, Akshan or Tristana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when facing off against Tristana, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes an ok counter to Tristana.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Tristana.
Moreover, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. 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 in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Tristana matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Tristana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Tristana. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Akshan versus Tristana build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting Tristana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Tristana with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Tristana as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Akshan vs Tristana counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Akshan are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.