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.
The stat comparisons shown here show several valuable Kai'Sa against Akshan matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Akshan..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Akshan, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Akshan.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Akshan, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Akshan.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter to Akshan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Akshan.
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Akshan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Akshan. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Akshan build include Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Akshan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when playing against Akshan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Akshan as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Akshan counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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