Akshan vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Akshan
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Akshan vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Volibear
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.”
Akshan vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Akshan against Volibear counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Volibear..
Akshan normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Volibear. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Volibear
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Who is Better, Akshan or Volibear?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when playing against Volibear, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a good counter for Volibear.
While Akshan does have a higher winrate than Volibear, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Volibear.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Volibear. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Volibear matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akshan is a decent counter to Volibear. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan in order to counter Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Volibear. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Akshan versus Volibear build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Akshan included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Volibear than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Volibear with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Volibear as Akshan, Akshan players should equip 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 runes players used for Akshan vs Volibear face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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