Kai'Sa vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Kai'Sa
based on 9,960 Kai'Sa vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Akali
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Kai'Sa against Akali matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Akali
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Akali.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Akali.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Akali build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Stormsurge, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Akali than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Akali as Kai'Sa, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Kai'Sa vs Akali LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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