Fiddlesticks vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Fiddlesticks vs. Akali matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Fiddlesticks usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Akali
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Fiddlesticks makes a good counter for Akali.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Akali matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter to Akali. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Akali 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 above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Fiddlesticks versus Akali build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Akali than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Akali as Fiddlesticks, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Akali LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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