Alistar vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Alistar
based on 3,894 Alistar vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Akali
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Alistar vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Alistar vs. Akali counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Akali
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Who is Better, Alistar or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Akali.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Akali matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Akali build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Akali as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Akali LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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