Ahri is a mage assassin that deals magic damage. Her strength is her combo damage that is really good especially on level 3 when she has all her basic abilities up. She has one crowd control ability, Charm that is really lethal to champions like Akshan as it makes you walk towards Ahri. She is at her strongest in the middle game, so make sure not to feed her.

Ahri isn't strong on level 1, so you should try to have a trade then. When she uses her Orb of Deception you should move diagonally so it doesn't hit you again when it comes back to her as then it deals true damage. Her level 3 power spike is really strong as her abilities form a really impactful combo when used together. Make sure there are minions between you two so she can't use her Charm on you. She is really vulnerable to ganks when she doesn't have spirit rush available, so if you have a crowd control jungler, try to set up a gank before level 6 and after it if you manage to bait her to use her ultimate. Only trade with her if she has used one of her abilities as it makes her combos a lot worse. Her auto attack range is 50 longer than you, but it shouldn't matter as they don't really deal any damage.

Akali is an assassin that deals magic damage. She has a great carry potential and an ultimate that can wipe out whole teams if she knows how to use it. She also has great mobility with a passive with a movement speed boost, Twilight Shroud, Shuriken Flip and Perfect Execution. Her weaknesses are her bad cs (not really bad tho), bad early game and squishyness. She is also countered by CC but you don't have any.

Akali doesn't use mana, she uses energy. That is pretty much like mana but she runs out of it more easily and it also recovers faster. Especially on first levels, it is really easy for her to run out of energy. It means that she barely has energy for a full combo and if she has used Five Point Strike to kill minions recently, the chances are she won't be able to execute a full combo. This gives you an opportunity to trade against her as she can probably use only one Five Point Strike.When she uses her Twilight Shroud, be sure to back off a bit so she won't be able to hit you with Shuriken Flip. You have better cs than her (not tremendously) and that is how you can easily gain advantage over her. When she goes in for cs, try to poke her with your auto attacks and/or Avengerang. She is also pretty vulnerable to ganks if she doesn't have Twilight Shroud up. It has a cooldown of 20 seconds so if she uses it, your jungler can gank her pretty freely. At level 6 when Akali gets her ultimate, she will be looking for kills. For sure. Don't overextend. Don't push. Don't trade if you don't have an escape plan. Her ultimate gives her a really nice damage, your ultimate is pretty much useless. Just continue farming and ask your jungler for gank because you might be able to bait her ultimate with a gank from your jungler. Continue poking her with Avengerang and try to freeze the wave to your turret.

Anivia is a mage with one of the best wave clears in the late game. She also has a passive that makes sure she isn't easy to kill in the early game because if you kill her, she reverts into an egg that has as much health as her. If you manage to kill the egg in 6 seconds, she dies. If you don't, she is reborn with the health the egg had left. Anivia's strength is simply late game. Then she has a great damage, great wave clear and a great game impact over all. She has one crowd control ability, Flash Frost that, if hit, nearly doubles the damage of her Frostbite while you are stunned. It is really easy to land on Akshan if you farm with the double attacks. Anivia is really squishy as she doesn't have any mobility and is very vulnerable to crowd control.

Anivia's bigges weakness by far is her early game. She doesn't have a lot to do against champion like Akshan that outfarms, outtrades and outrages her. You should engage as much as you can before level 6 in order to gain maximal control over the lane. She has bigger auto attack range than Akshan, but it really doesn't matter since you can still poke her with Avengerang. You should ask you jungler for ganks a lot, because your goal is to bully her out of lane as soon as possible. She will probably play very passively early (if she didn't, this matchup would be 2/5 difficulty). She will eventually make a mistake, just make sure to punish her for it. To make sure she can't use her combo on you, only use single auto attacks to kill minions. It will give you more movement speed to dodge her Flash Frost and if you don't, she can easily land it on you as you are staying still for a longer time period.

Annie is a mage with all the abilities to counter Akshan in the early game. She has a good damage (combined with Electrocute), a shield that also damages Akshan if he hits her, a stun every once in a while, a click-to-hit fireball and her own furry friend Summon: Tibbers that is basically another champion. Yes, of course, all of these abilities have higher range than your auto attacks.

Annie's biggest weakness is her immobility. Molten Shield can give her some movement speed but otherwise she is completely immobile. This is the only weakness you can utilize. Ask for gank and hope for the best, I mean. You should play very passively, try to outfarm her and basically never try to trade against her. Roam if you can with Going Rogue, that is pretty much everything you can do. Don't approach her and keep your distance.

Aurelion Sol is an infinitely stacking mage that has had one of the best reworks in the whole game. He used to be a billion year old weakling that couldn't kill anyone without 1000 hours of practise.He had a really weird kit, weird abilities and play rate that consisted of people who played him once, rage quitted and never came back. Now Aurelion Sol is a lot stronger, funnier to play and also infinitely stacking and also easier to play. His abilities outrange your auto attacks, but they don't deal a lot of damage in the early game so you don't have to worry about them too much. The biggest weakness of Aurelion Sol is probably his early game as he doesn't have any passive stacks. He also runs out of mana easily. His melee fighting capability is worse than yours meaning that you win him in close distance fights.

As I said earlier, Aurelion Sol's biggest weakness is his early game. Like always, you need to utilize that con in order to win the lane and the whole game eventually. You need to engage a lot because you win him in melee combat and keep the fights long so he needs to use Astral Flight. When he doesn't have Astral Flight up he is completely immobile, but it doesn't have a high cooldown so it's very unlikely that you could get any advantage of it. Aurelion Sol is a very good roaming champion because of Astral Flight, so if you see him leaving the lane with it, inform your teammates that he is on his way. Try to minimize his farm early so he doesn't get too many passive stacks. It is really hard to kill him because of Astral Flight so your best chance is to bully him out of lane and roam with Going Rogue to win the lane.

Azir is a mage that has a very unique kit and great zone control By the way, it's kind of funny how all the first 6 champions in this matchup section deal magic damage, like, what are the odds? Anyways, Azir is a really bad counter for Akshan as he has his arise that creates sand soldiers where ever he wants, makind it really hard to fight against him as he can stay away from minions while farming and damage you at the same time. However, Azir is really squishy especially in the early game as he doesn't have a lot of health and he doesn't have Emperor's Divide up. If you see him use arise twice in a short period of time and also doesn't have Conquering Sands up, it is your time to go in as he only has Shifting Sands available as he can only use it to dash to sand soldiers that are further from his turret. Also ask for a gank, especially if he doesn't have Shifting Sands available, it makes him a lot more vulnerable.

As I said earlier, Azir hard counters Akshan as he has a better farming ability (because he doesn't need to be close to minions), outpokes you, outscales you and has more game impact in the late game because of Emperor's Divide. However, his early game isn't so strong (kind of weak actually), so you should utilize it to win the lane. At level 1, take Heroic Swing instead of Avengerang and wait until he uses a sand soldier, then go in for a long trade as he pretty much can't win it. If everything goes well, he should now be really low and popping his potions and also be behind in farm. Ask your jungler for a level 2 gank so Azir doesn't have any chance of surviving without Flash that he probably already used in the first trade. If you get the kill, push the lane, recall and buy a small item like Long Sword and you are already a lot better off than you normally would be. If he uses arise twice in a short period of time and doesn't have conquering sand up, you should go in for a trade (if he doesn't have Emperor's Divide yet) as he has no ability to run from you except Shifting Sands that would probably just bring him closer to you because of the positioning of his sand soldiers. Ask for a lot of ganks and play safe so he doesn't poke you to death. Keep in mind that Emperor's Divide can get you easily killed, so when he gets it, play very passively. Ward a lot to not get ganked and focus on cs from level 6 onwards, roam and counter roam Azir.

Cassiopeia is a mage that has a unique kit. She has Petrifying Gaze that is a great AoE ultimate, especially in teamfights and situations where she is being chased, Twin Fang that is basically just another auto attack but faster and deals great damage. She also can't buy any boots but gains movement speed based on level. Cassiopeia has no mobility, which is her biggest weakness as she can't even buy boots to ease her with it. She also runs out of mana quickly in the early game which makes farming harder for her as she can't use Twin Fang that often. She isn't really that strong in the early game or middle game, but can become a real late game monster if she isn't far behind.

Cassiopeia's abilities outrange your auto attacks by far (including Twin Fang) which makes it a lot harder for you to trade and farm against her as she can poke you a lot if you don't watch out for her Noxious Blast. I suggest you to only hit minions with single auto attacks so she can't hit Noxious Blast on you because if you don't, you are pretty much a free target to her combos. Her movement speed is really bad in the early levels which leaves her with Flash as her only source of mobility (if she doesn't hit Noxious Blast). On level 1 you should take Heroic Swing instead of Avengerang so you can engage without her having any chance of escaping except for Flash. You should ask your jungler for ganks especially in the early levels where Cassiopeia is most vulnerable. As is said earlier, you must dodge her Noxious Blast. Really. It gives Cassiopeia a hefty movement speed boost and starts her combo that deals more damage than you should take. It won't be a healthy trade for you. When she hits level 6, she gets her hands on Petrifying Gaze. It will make it easier for her to kill you, escape and teamfight. Keep it in mind and you should be okay.

Corki is a mage/marksman that has a really rare feature: he is a mage that builds attack damage (though his abilities mostly don't scale with attack damage). He has a somewhat unique kit, mostly because of his passive and ultimate. His passive makes Corki's basic attacks deal 100% physical damage and 15% true damage which is a great passive as not many champions can deal as much true damage as Corki can. His ultimate, Missile Barrage allows him to shoot missiles with a short cooldown (however, the recharge time is 20 seconds). The ability has up to 4 charges and every third missile deals double damage. The ultimate gives him a great power spike every time he gets to update it, especially on level 6 when he unlocks it. Corki's biggest weakness is probably his early game. It is just really bad. He is also completely immobile if his Valkyrie up (it has a long cooldown especially in the early game). Corki's biggest strength is his late game along with his AoE damage so make sure to stomp him properly in the early game.

Akshan is a great counter against Corki as you have a lot better trading capability in the laning phase, can roam a lot better, have a better wave clear and simply Akshan counters Corki totally in the early game. As I said earlier, Corki's biggest weaknessess are his early game and the lack of mobility without his W. Utilizing these cons is kind of easy. Because he has really weak early game, you can engage a lot with Heroic Swing (you just have to make sure enemy jungler isn't nearby) and start trades as you will always win them. If he is playing safe, push the lane and roam, but mostly just last hit the minions in order to minimize his chance of playing safe. Whenever he goes in for farm, you can try to engage with Heroic Swing. You can also fake roam, meaning that you push the lane, get out with Going Rogue and camp a bit so Corki can push the wave back, and attack when he is too far from his turret. This can also be combined with a gank.

Ekko is a melee assassin that has a great burst damage and can also go back in time, which is a really unique feature, especially for an assassin. For an assassin Ekko is kind of immobile with only one dash and a passive that can give him some movement speed. He has a great combo damage even in the early game, but can rarely hit the full combo on Akshan as you can use Heroic Swing to get away. Sometimes he might use Phase Dive to kill a minion. This is a sign for you to go in as he won't deal even nearly as much damage without it. Ekko's is strongest in the middle game where he already has a few items, has upgraded his abilities and has chrono break. Basically he is a lot stronger than Akshan and can win you in any trade. However, you can roam a lot in the middle game (he will probably roam a lot too) so you don't need to fight him. Try to get some advantage over him in the early game so you don't end up feeding.

As I said earlier, Ekko is an assassin, so he has a high burst damage, meaning that his combos are fast and effective. However, he is a melee champion which means that he needs to go near minions when taking cs (if he doesn't use Timewinder to farm). This is the con that you should be abusing as much as you can because if you can keep him away from minions, he will fall behind in farm and gold income. Try to freeze the wave to your turret so he can't get you killed with ganks. If he doesn't have his abilities up, you can try to take a longer trade to get him out of lane. Remember that his damage is no joke, especially in the middle game when he will win every 1v1 you two have. Try to stomp him early so he can't become a middle game carry. When he isn't on the lane, roam or if he will be back soon, use Going Rogue and stay near midlane while he pushes the wave back. Take scuttle grab for example and then go back to lane and surprise him.