Brand vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Brand
based on 13,462 Brand vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Akali
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Brand against Akali matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Brand typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Akali. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Akali
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Who is Better, Brand or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Akali, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Akali.
While Brand does have a higher winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Akali.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Akali matchups, Brand is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter to Akali. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Brand against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often gets less CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Brand versus Akali build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Akali as Brand, Brand players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand vs Akali fights, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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