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.”
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Akshan against Trundle matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Trundle..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Typically, they receives less damage than Trundle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when trying to fight Trundle, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter to Trundle.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Trundle, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Trundle.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a much 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 bad counter for Trundle. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Trundle.
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Trundle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Trundle. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan versus Trundle build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better against Trundle than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 47.0% battling Trundle with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Trundle as Akshan, you should use 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 runes players chose for Akshan vs Trundle fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Trundle as Akshan are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.