Akali vs Lissandra Counter Pick

Ice Shard slows on a passing hit, Ring of Frost roots anything nearby, and Frozen Tomb stuns outright when cast on an enemy — three separate crowd control effects in one kit, and that chain is a large part of why Akali sits at only 40.0% in this pairing across 145 games on patch 16.13.1. Twilight Shroud grants invisibility but not immunity to area effects already placed, so Lissandra can lock down the space Akali is diving into before she ever gets a clean read on where the mage actually is.

Glacial Path adds a second dash on top of that kit, letting Lissandra reposition away from an incoming Perfect Execution the moment she senses the engage, and Iceborn Subjugation turns any nearby champion death into a slowing zone that lingers into the next skirmish. Akali’s own healing through Assassin’s Mark requires landing spell damage first, which is exactly what a root-into-stun sequence is built to prevent. Lissandra is rated a 6 difficulty against Akali’s 7, so this reads less like an execution gap and more like a kit that answers dive champions directly — Lissandra‘s crowd control simply arrives first.