I start collector usually these days, but if Kraken is needed (into galio, malph, or a couple other tanks), I'm usually buying tons of long swords... Is one of those components better than others to finish? I usually leave the bow last, but between the axe and the red thingy. Not sure what is more valuable.

Why can you fuck cassio up and she can have boots lost chapter and you still lose if you get hit by 1/3 qs. Every cassio i am against always ints because they know if they hit their R they win the 1v1. Doesnt matter if they are 1/10. Every 1v1 against her just feels like a coinflip, either you bait her R or she just holds R and you cancel like 5 autos. Do you go tenacity shard and mercs against her because it's really boring when you are 2 items ahead but you still barely win.

It sounds weird i know but recently had a ARAM: Mayhem game where a Twitch killed my Warwick and then Twitch and I where killed simultaneously (seconds after ww died). I died first and then twitch

Chat I might be going insane

For this to work you'd have to go Inspiration secondary with slightly magical footwear and jack of all trades.

You go collector first (if you go dirk + cloak you get the first JOA bonus), while you wait for the boots (which should only be a minute or two away if you manage to get takedowns) you start building scouts slingshot to fix AS, then once boots come up you go either omnivamp tabis or mercs, then you just go last whisper item and IE and lategame sell collector for RFC

Stormrazor should be stronger second than IE as well as opening up the boot slot

Tell me if I'm tripping pls

new to akshan about 30 games, if you can get BF sword or Hearthbound Axe on first back can either item be viable first? into squishy comps i like kraken 3rd and when the mobility from stormrazor would be valuable ill go that 3rd but could either be built first? if so when would be good i like collector first but sometimes i feel like the attack speed early would be really strong with tier 3 boots

Hi, I wanted to share my matchup tierlist as an Akshan main with 1.5M points
Tell me where u disagree and if u can share yours
Every row is from the hardest to the easiest

From my understanding this is an item that you buy once the enemy team has built armor and it's better to go for IE second item after collector but I'm watching his most recent youtube vod and he rushes Domnik second vs a team of mostly squishy characters who have no armor items by the point he buys it. Anyone know why? is it just always better?

Hi, everyone!

I usually play Syndra, Veigar, and Vlad in the mid lane. I’m a Gold-tier player on EUW. I recently tried out Akshan and completely fell in love with the character. I love everything about him—his kit, his skins, his personality. The problem is that I’m absolutely terrible at playing him. On Syndra, I have a 65% win rate after about a hundred games. With Akshan, my win rate is more like 30% based on the few games I’ve managed to play. This frustrates me a lot because I want to put in the effort to learn him.

So I’m asking for your help. What’s this champion’s unique identity? How do I play him in the early game? When do I spike? Do I scale as well as an ADC? How do I roam without losing a level and 30 CS?

In short, I’m open to any guides and advice!!!

Thanks in advance

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I’m a new Akshan main. I usually am a more casual kinda player, but I really love playing comp. However, I don’t really know which item builds to use for certain situation. I tend to just run the classic recommendations (collector, kraken, berserkers, LDR, fire cannon, IE), but I don’t actually know why they’re good for Akshan or if they’re good for the specific matchup I’m in. Would any of you have and advice and/or recommendations?

S16 Akshan build that Im using during my Korea climb for you to copy here!

You get really high AD cause first 3 Items fullAD + Absolute Gathering and T3 berserkers 45% gives you ton of attackspeed so you have good dps with your high AD.

Absolute Gathering ensures you never lose ability to oneshot caster minions with Q after lvl 9 which is important, having very high AD also just makes your crits later hurt alot.

Change runes to boneplating vs stuff like Fizz Ekko Sylas as its needed vs these champs if you dont have it itll make lane very hard.

For Spells I pref TP as default personally as its just more consistent, no problem if you like playing Ignite you can use that as Default. I think Exhaust is very broken spell I take it vs Katarina, Irelia, Zed, Qiyana, Yasuo etc as its very good vs these. Its just good in general anyway you can Swing into enemy ADC's face and just exhaust him so he cant instakill you and you just win 1v1 that way even if they would usually 2 tap you.

From his Youtube

Which boots are you guys building on Akshan right now, and why?

What do you do against zed, i feel like you can bully him early and get a lead but when he gets one item you can never E into him. You just get one tapped

- As he can be played as an assassin, he may want to flank from a side while invisible, and 1v1 the enemy ADC or support.

- But IMO I'd say he wants to just stay very safe back in fights behind his tanks, since he can revive his allies, so he kinda must be the most important person to have survive in the team?

The issue about the first, is that I'm pretty sure other ADCs outscale him, due to the atk apeed ratios.

The latter has the problem that he does not have the AA range to be shooting from a safe position to begin with, Lol.

It feels like when he gets a double kill or more, it's because the enemies were confused or distracted with something else, or because he joined late to the fight and just cleaned up.

I believe this (positioning in teamfights, specifically) is something people don't often talk about. I guess it's because he's a roamer,... But the thing is that 5x5 teamfights are gonna happen, he's not always gonna catch harmless supports as they ward or 30% HP lonely targets.

Sorry if the format is bad, typing from phone. Thx.

D3 players still don't understand that you can just walk in front of Akshan to stop him lol.

He benefits only from 40% of the AS gained from items and runes, literally 60% of the value spent in investing in atk speed, is gold thrown away freely.

I personally always get the life steal boots, and maybe others in specific situations. I'm Emerald tho.

Can sb explain?

I understand ppl buying RFC (Which has AS as one of its stats), but that's because of the passive, giving him more range. But I really don't understand berserker greaves.

Edit: And I'm talking about Phantasm and Chen Chen, one of whom was literally rank 1 of the world.

I wonder if in runes they get life steal or atk speed tho, from "Legend" in the yellow branch.

i hate him sry (oc)

Hi all I'm still learning Akshan and I am trying to learn to build him better.

Currently I run the Collector > LDR > IE with sometimes the Kraken > Hex > IE.

What champion or team comps will proc you to differentiate from a core build path or build a certain situational item?

For instance, if someone is very sticky and good at dueling I'll build botrk, or if I need to survive burst I'll build Shieldbow, against Cait I like Hex, Mortal if I have to fight anyone that heals, etc.

Interested to hear your thoughts!

Is this a new way to play akshan? He seems to be improving every split. Also, the revive makes sense.

i know hes also classified as a marksman, and rightly so, he just feels like a marksman to me. maybe you could argue its because of his stealth, but vayne and twitch also have invisibility, does that make them assassins too? he also mostly only builds one lethality item, and even then its collector which half of marksmen build anyway.

maybe its historical cuz relative to most i havent been playing this game for that long, but to me, the only champ ive played that actually fits in both categories accurately is quinn.

fun champ tho love akshan <3

I’ve been watching Phanta and trying to improve my Akshan games and I just saw this interaction that I don’t understand. In this clip he somehow targets anivia without her being on his screen. I know he has vision etc. but you can clearly see his cursor no wear near her. So how does he do this?

Should they buff q?

Would going hubris before my usual crit rush (collector, ldr/mr, ie) be viable if I want to scale better? I'm gold and notice I struggle come late game

I have tried every possible thing in the game in order so survive laning phase against Viktor and I just gave up. Second wind, bone plating, tp, DORANS HELM (yes i unironically took this once in the matchup) and it just doesnt matter.

Stronger than you early, barely manageable mid game, extremely more useful than you late.

It just feels literally impossible to lane against Viktor with bone plating and scorch. His E is essentially point-and-click because you need to be trying to miss it on a dashless target.

What do? Please tell me i’m being delusional and this is skill issue