Akshan vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Akshan
based on 3,818 Akshan vs Vayne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Akshan vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Akshan vs. Vayne matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Vayne..
Akshan often has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Vayne. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Vayne
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Who is Better, Akshan or Vayne?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Vayne, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter for Vayne.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Vayne, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Vayne.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Vayne matchups, Vayne is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Vayne. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Vayne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Vayne. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly 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 do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Vayne build consist of Infinity Edge, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better countering Vayne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 48.6% battling Vayne with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vayne as Akshan, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Akshan vs Vayne LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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