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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Akali against Lissandra counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Akali normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when taking on Lissandra, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter for Lissandra.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Akali also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Akali into Lissandraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akali against Lissandra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often gets a similar amount of CS as Lissandra. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Akali versus Lissandra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Lissandra than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Lissandra as Akali, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akali vs Lissandra counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
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