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.
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Akali vs. Dr. Mundo matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Dr. Mundo’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Dr. Mundo. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Dr. Mundo. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when taking on Dr. Mundo, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter for Dr. Mundo.
While Akali does have a lower winrate than Dr. Mundo, when on opposite teams, Akali also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Dr. Mundoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akali is a terribly counter for Dr. Mundo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Dr. Mundo.
To truly master Akali to counter Dr. Mundo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Dr. Mundo. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Akali versus Dr. Mundo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Dr. Mundo than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when countering Dr. Mundo with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Dr. Mundo as Akali, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Dr. Mundo battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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