User blog comment:AtheistUntoDeath/Which of these Champions would win? Part 2/@comment-24515464-20140509172534

Both of them being assassins, I figure it would be a battle of baiting the target into making a mistake, a drawn-out fight would be highly inefficient. Since Akali is a ninja and according to her lore she "eliminates those who cause imbalance", she definitely has the will to kill and probably no restrictions when she knows she has to kill off her target, just not the experience Kat would have from constantly going on assassinations as opposed to only when someone disrupts the balance.

If we look at the gear she has on her, Kat has a limited amount of throwing knives, which makes sense as carrying 100 knives on you would be cumbersome as hell. Kat however can still manage to rampage through a heavily guarded camp by herself, kill someone specific, and bail out.

Akali has her 2 kamas and smoke bombs, and she can slice steel chains with her BARE HANDS. While her in game abilities only let her dash to a target, what's to stop her in actuality from jumping away?

In the end though, while the hunt itself might take some time, it would probably not be any longer than 1 encounter since any mistake would be lethal. I vote Kat because she's a 1-woman-army. By herself she can take on dozens, if she's against only 1 opponent, she wouldn't have to split her focus.