Akali vs Ornn Counter Pick

Ornn’s Living Forge lets him build non-consumable items from anywhere on the map and upgrade them later for the whole team — a genuinely unusual passive — and across a solid 511-game sample on patch 16.13.1 Akali wins only 44.4% of the resulting top lane. Part of the answer is armor: Living Forge also grants Ornn bonus Armor and Magic Resist from all sources, stacking defensive itemization on top of an already tanky 660 base health and 121.4 armor at level 18, well above Akali’s 102.9.

Bellows Breath applies Brittle on its final tick, a debuff that increases incoming damage and crowd control duration, which actually punishes Akali for committing a full combo the moment it lands. Volcanic Rupture’s fissure-then-pillar combo threatens a knock-up if she misjudges the delay, and Call of the Forge God summons a traveling elemental that stuns on impact — enough control to interrupt Shuriken Flip’s dash before it connects. Ornn’s difficulty rating of 5 is notably lower than Akali’s 7, so this isn’t a mechanically demanding counter so much as a tank built to soak assassin burst and punish the follow-up. Ornn‘s forged items only widen that gap as the game goes on.