Rengar vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Rengar
based on 7,816 Rengar vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Akali
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Rengar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Rengar versus Akali counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Rengar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Akali. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Akali
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Who is Better, Rengar or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes a good counter for Akali.
While Rengar does have a higher winrate than Akali, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rengar into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rengar has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Akali matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Rengar is a decent counter to Akali. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rengar against Akali.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rengar
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rengar in order to counter Akali during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar most often gets a lot less CS as Akali. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rengar versus Akali build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Rengar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Akali as Rengar, Rengar players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Ultimate Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Rengar vs Akali counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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