Akali
Damaging a champion with a spell creates a ring of energy. Entering it grants Akali movement speed and an empowered, ranged auto-attack.
- Damage5
- Durability3
- Magic8
- Difficulty7
- Mobility8
- CC3
Counters by laneEach lane has counters + tips
Top
Jungle
MidPrimary
How to play as Akali
- W shroud in fights — energy refund + stealth + safety
- R has two casts: R1 in, R2 (delayed) for execute or escape
- Build Hextech Rocketbelt + Riftmaker
- Passive adds magic damage to AA — weave AA between abilities
- Lane: Q + AA poke then back off, don't get caught
- Lich Bane third — Spellblade with AP hits hard
How to beat Akali
- Drop a Control Ward / Vision Ward to reveal her shroud
- Build Bramble Vest + Executioner's Calling for anti-heal
- Mercury's Treads cuts her second R (R2) stun
- Akali runs out of energy quickly — bait her abilities
- Watch her dash into shroud — she goes invisible
- Kill her before her ult range comes online
ADC
Abilities
Assassin's Mark
Innate: Akali's damaging abilities against a champion create a ring around them for 4 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits. Then for 2 seconds, she gains 30% bonus movement speed while moving outward. Only one ring may be active at a time.
When Akali exits the ring, she regains the bonus movement speed for 2 seconds while facing nearby enemy champions and becomes empowered with Swinging Kama for 4 seconds, during which she cannot create another ring.
Swinging Kama: Akali's next basic attack is empowered to have its range doubled and deal 35 to 175 for 15% (+ 60% bonus AD) (+ 55% AP) bonus magic damage.
Five Point Strike
Active: Akali fans out kunais in a cone in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit. Targets at maximum range are also slow by 50% for 0.5 seconds.
Twilight Shroud
Active: Akali restores 100 energy and detonates a smoke bomb a fixed distance away in the target direction, creating a circular shroud that expands over the next 5 seconds into a ring. The shroud does not permeate terrain, and will expand toward nearby enemy champions.
The shroud lasts for a duration, during which Akali's maximum energy is increased by 100. Inside the shroud, she gains bonus movement speed and turns invisibility. Actions that would break stealth will prevent her stealthing for 0.8 seconds.
Shuriken Flip
Active: Akali dash backward and, after the cast time, throws a shuriken in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit. This also marks and true sight them for 3 seconds, during which Shuriken Flip can be recast to consume the mark.
Recast: Akali dashes toward the marked target, dealing magic damage upon arrival.
Akali will not flip backwards if she is immobilized or grounded during the cast time. Twilight Shroud and Perfect Execution can be cast during the recast's dash.
Perfect Execution
Active: Akali dash 750 units in the direction of the target enemy champion, dealing magic damage to enemies she passes through. If this hits an enemy, she flips over them to continue the dash up to the normal range but for at least another 150 units.
Perfect Execution can be recast after 2.5 seconds within 10 seconds of the first activation.
Recast: Akali dash 800 units in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies she passes through, increased by %.