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.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stats shown here highlight several critical Akali vs. Ashe matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ashe. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Ashe. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when trying to fight Ashe, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Akali makes a good counter to Ashe.
While Akali does have a higher win rate compared to Ashe, when facing one another, Akali also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Asheas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Ashe matchups, Akali is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akali is a decent counter for Ashe. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Ashe.
To truly master Akali in order to counter Ashe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average gets a similar amount of CS as Ashe. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus Ashe build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Akali included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Ashe than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Ashe with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Ashe as Akali, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Ashe counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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