This build guide for Akali is for top lane, by Voyboy, a challenger tier level player. Akali is a great assassin who when played well can dominate the enemy team.
Targets a single champion dealing 50 + (lvl x 20) true damage over 5 seconds. Also reduces the target’s healing and regeneration by 50%.
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Skill Order
Mark of the Assassin
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 35/55/75/95/115 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 45/70/95/120/145 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 20/25/30/35/40 Energy.
Cost
60 Energy
Range
0
Cooldown
6/5.5/5/4.5/4 Seconds
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 35 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 45 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 20 Energy.
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 55 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 70 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 25 Energy.
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 75 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 95 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 30 Energy.
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 95 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 120 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 35 Energy.
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 115 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 145 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 40 Energy.
Twilight Shroud
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10/20/30/40/50 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 14/18/22/26/30%.
Cost
80/75/70/65/60 Energy
Range
0
Cooldown
20/20/20/20/20 Seconds
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 14%.
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 20 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 18%.
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 30 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 22%.
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 40 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 26%.
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 50 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 30%.
Crescent Slash
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 30/55/80/105/130 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Cost
60/55/50/45/40 Energy
Range
0
Cooldown
7/6/5/4/3 Seconds
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 30 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 55 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 80 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 105 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 130 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Shadow Dance
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100/175/250 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
Cost
0/0/0
Range
0
Cooldown
2/1.5/1 Seconds
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 175 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 250 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 35 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 45 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 20 Energy.
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 14%.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 55 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 70 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 25 Energy.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 30 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 75 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 95 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 30 Energy.
R
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 95 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 120 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 35 Energy.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 55 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 115 (+0.4*AP) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 145 (+0.5*AP) magic damage and restore 40 Energy.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 80 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
R
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 175 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 105 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemy units for 130 (+0.3*AD) (+0.3*AP) physical damage.
Triggers Mark of the Assassin on targets affected by it.
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 20 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 18%.
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 30 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 22%.
R
Shadow Dance
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 250 (+0.5*AP) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 0.5*AD seconds up to 3 total.
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 40 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 26%.
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 50 Armor and Magic Resist and becomes invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke are slowed by 30%.
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Items
Full Game Build
Hextech Gunblade
Sorcerer's Shoes
Rabadon's Deathcap
Guardian Angel
Void Staff
Lich Bane
Enchantment: Alacrity
Enchantment: Distortion
Starting Items
Sight Ward
Health Potion
x5
Rejuvenation Bead
Pros and Cons
Pros:
High sustain with her built-in spell vamp
High base damage due to her passive
Very mobile with her utlimate
Closes gaps and bursts targets effectively. NO ESCAPEES.
Cons:
Countered by pink wards / oracles and easily focused down
Has many counters top lane
Very reliant on farm as snowballing is important to her assassin playstyle. Farm to 6 ASAP.
Uhm, Rejuvenation Bead costs 180g and sells for 126 gold, so that's a 54g loss if you sell it, right?
I've not a little napkin math, and if the Rejuvenation Bead is active and relevant for 4 minutes or longer, it's more cost effective than health potions. Maybe the right answer is 2 beads 1 pot 1 ward in some lanes?
Shame about the continuous nerfs to Akali. She was my favourite assasin.
On another note, I've been looking at the spread between magic and physical damage I deal to champions as Akali, and it's about a 25%/75%, (mostly) following the above build. Anyone have different data points?
I haven't checked "to champions" but damage dealt in general always seems to be more physical than magical....weird. I assume it's from last hitting creeps, but even that does magic damage too...
I have a question. I've tried to test this but I can't really tell. Is the "double proccing technique" when you use your Q on someone, wait for it to come off cooldown, proc it, reapply Q and proc again OR do the Qs stack? Since at level 9, the CD is 4 seconds, but the debuff lasts 6 seconds, can you put two marks and pop them both with one auto?
Yes she got nerfed, but she still has great snowballing power. Also, in the 3.07 patch, her shroud is now giving vision, which is going to be a huge buff.
Westrice is still a better Akali but if you know who Westrice is you can probably wander over to his LoLKing and decipher his setup.
I'll give you a hint, it's the same as this but with an armor seal setup for against early gamers like Renekton and a HP seal setup for better dives come mid-late game and switched out MR glyphs for AP/L Glyphs to go with another HP/L Seal page and armor seal page for when there's not a lot of AP or magic damage, otherwise probably an MR/L page and an AD mark page for early harass against Irelia etc.
Switching from offense to defense is really if you can get away with it but there are plenty of great builds like Hextech, Mercs, Abyssal and Randuins to go with tanky setups or otherwise defense and HP otherwise the more bursty setups and 21 offense builds which are a lot safer in mid lane.
Take teleport too if you want to 21 offense burst top lane because if you lose lane, you'll lose game.
Mark of the Assassin
Twilight Shroud
Crescent Slash
Shadow Dance
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Posted 5/10/2013 5:41:52 AMUhm, Rejuvenation Bead costs 180g and sells for 126 gold, so that's a 54g loss if you sell it, right?
I've not a little napkin math, and if the Rejuvenation Bead is active and relevant for 4 minutes or longer, it's more cost effective than health potions. Maybe the right answer is 2 beads 1 pot 1 ward in some lanes?
Shame about the continuous nerfs to Akali. She was my favourite assasin.
On another note, I've been looking at the spread between magic and physical damage I deal to champions as Akali, and it's about a 25%/75%, (mostly) following the above build. Anyone have different data points?
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Posted 5/10/2013 4:47:09 PMI haven't checked "to champions" but damage dealt in general always seems to be more physical than magical....weird. I assume it's from last hitting creeps, but even that does magic damage too...
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Posted 5/9/2013 5:38:44 AMcan akali beat xin zhao in a 1V1 in this patch?
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Posted 5/6/2013 9:08:19 PMLol I just watched the game of the picture in the strategy section a few hours ago.
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Posted 5/6/2013 9:06:23 PMI have a question. I've tried to test this but I can't really tell. Is the "double proccing technique" when you use your Q on someone, wait for it to come off cooldown, proc it, reapply Q and proc again OR do the Qs stack? Since at level 9, the CD is 4 seconds, but the debuff lasts 6 seconds, can you put two marks and pop them both with one auto?
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Posted 5/6/2013 8:59:04 PMYes she got nerfed, but she still has great snowballing power. Also, in the 3.07 patch, her shroud is now giving vision, which is going to be a huge buff.
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Posted 4/24/2013 3:32:45 AMThis guide would probably need an update next patch since hp pots are capped to 5 and Red Pot increased to 350g.
And yer Akali is pretty much overnerfed now. esp lolking shows this.
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1cynf8/patch_35_balance_update_aftermath_the_statistics/
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Posted 4/21/2013 1:13:49 PMthey fucked akali up. 3 nerfs in a row
r.i.p the greatest champion ever
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Posted 4/22/2013 6:52:06 PMThat's true, she is too much nerfed now, can't play her.
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Posted 3/22/2013 9:17:29 AMI would add mordekaiser to counters to akali. From experience, there is just nothing to be done...
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Posted 2/20/2013 1:22:58 PMWtf what happened to Westrice's guide? Just because Voyboy has a guide for Akali top lane, we can't have Westrice's guide for Akali mid lane?
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Posted 2/21/2013 10:13:54 PMThats really how i felt to Westrice more then deserving of his build here
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Posted 3/1/2013 1:03:55 PMMaybe.. just maybe.. Westrice doesn't want to update the guide anymore?
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Posted 3/4/2013 11:20:43 PM"You will be laning either mid or top"
Westrice is still a better Akali but if you know who Westrice is you can probably wander over to his LoLKing and decipher his setup.
I'll give you a hint, it's the same as this but with an armor seal setup for against early gamers like Renekton and a HP seal setup for better dives come mid-late game and switched out MR glyphs for AP/L Glyphs to go with another HP/L Seal page and armor seal page for when there's not a lot of AP or magic damage, otherwise probably an MR/L page and an AD mark page for early harass against Irelia etc.
Switching from offense to defense is really if you can get away with it but there are plenty of great builds like Hextech, Mercs, Abyssal and Randuins to go with tanky setups or otherwise defense and HP otherwise the more bursty setups and 21 offense builds which are a lot safer in mid lane.
Take teleport too if you want to 21 offense burst top lane because if you lose lane, you'll lose game.
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Posted 3/5/2013 12:26:22 PMRight, and Voyboy wanted to update it. That's why the change!
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