Akali vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Akali
based on 3,894 Akali vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Alistar
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Akali vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here show some vital Akali versus Alistar counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Alistar
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Who is Better, Akali or Alistar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually fairs equally well when playing against Alistar, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Alistaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on 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.
Akali usually accumulates much more CS compared to Alistar. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Akali versus Alistar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 49.0% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Alistar as Akali, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Akali vs Alistar LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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