Milio's dash speeds increase with his movement speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Milio requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Milio against Akali counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Milio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Milio may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Akali. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Milio often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Milio usually fairs equally well when taking on Akali, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Milio makes an ok counter to Akali.
While Milio does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Milio also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Milio into Akali.
Moreover, Milio has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Milio vs Akali matchups, Milio is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Milio is a decent counter for Akali. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Milio against Akali.
If you would like to truly master Milio in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Milio on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Milio versus Akali build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Dawncore. When Milio bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs. Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Milio had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Akali with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Akali as Milio, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Milio vs Akali counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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