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Spells:
Exhaust
Flash
Ability Order
Assassin's Mark (PASSIVE)
Akali Passive Ability
Introduction
This is a video i made for this guide, enjoy!:)
This build will in no time turn you in to a true Akali master. Playing Akali


Passive Ability:

Upon obtaining 19.5 ability power, Akali's hits deal 10% bonus magic damage, increasing by 1% for every 5 ability power gained thereafter. (Magic damage doesn't affect towers, but it affects other structures.)
Upon obtaining 9.5 attack damage, Akali gains 10% Spell Vamp, increasing by an additional 1% for every 5 attack damage gained thereafter.
Q:

Mark of the Assassin
Akali spins her kama at a target enemy to deal 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds.
Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will trigger and consume the mark to cause 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and restore 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 energy.
Cooldown: 6/5.5/5/4.5/4
Range: 600
Cost:60
W:

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 stealthed. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
Enemies inside the smoke have their movement speed reduced by 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30%.
Cooldown:20
Range: 700
Cost:80/75/70/65/60
E:

Akali flourishes her kamas, hitting nearby units for 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 physical damage (+30% of ability power) + 60% Attack Damage.
Cooldown:7/6/5/4/3
Range:325
Cost:60
R:

Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100 / 175 / 250 (+50% of ability power) magic damage.
Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 25 / 20 / 15 seconds up to 3 total.
Cooldown:2/1.5/1
Range:800
Cost:0
Akalis skill sequence is not simple at all, it sounds simple when i say tha all you have to do is just spamming your Q

Here's is what you do.
1v1: Taking any squishy down 1v1 should be easy as Akali


The champions you should avoid is






Your skill sequence as Akali is in any fight:















Other options:
Ignite



CV

Cleanse




Ghost

I believe that Im the only one who have chosen to run a build that procc's both sides of Akali's passive ability


It gives you a early advantage, over your enemies, and maybe the enemy Akali.
When you both side of your passive ability procced before you enter the game, you can also buy a
Depends on the enemy team, but i often like too buy







Boots: Normally i get either


Mercs for the tenacity, and Soreceres for the MP.
Lich Bane

Guinsoo Rageblade

But notice that this item doesn't support your role as a assassin as good as other items.
It will help you in some situations.
Rabadon's Deathcap

Void Staff

Items you might want to consider buying:
Zhonyas Hourglass

Quicksilver Sash

Guardian Angel

Banshee's Veil

Mejai's Soulstealer

Ninja Tabi

Will of the Ancients

Abyssal Scepter

Spirit Visage

Note: If you dont like that i use Guinsoo's Rageblade, please dont vote the guide down. Try the guide out with one of the other items suggested above:).









There's a huge discussion going on between












Farming as Akali is easy. Last as many minions as possible. Spam your abilities, they will probably harras you very much, thinking that you will go back to your base. Well you've procced both passives from lvl 1 so you have a bit of spell vamp(and life steal if you bought Dorans Blade

That basically what you have to do. If possible, if you have a good lanepartner then push with your

Remember: Allway buy wards, it can make your escape alot easier.
Solo or mid:
Mid: When you mid with Akali allways keep in your mind that you with 100% garanty are playing against a champion whom can burst you down very easily and quickly(Annie, LeBlanc, Swain.)
If youre against a high burst champion mid, then you should totally ignore the enemy champion and only focus on last hitting minions.
Anivia: I often play against Anivia in mid as Akali, and what i do is i push with my









But normally as Akali your damage output is HUGE in the beggining of the game. If you use your shroud correctly you should be able to keep them at low health almost the whole laning phase, or if they're scared they'll get underfed, and then you will have an advantage over them anyway.
Solo lane Akali:
As sololane you start off with a pair of Boot's of speed and three healing potions. As solo lane Akali you let them push your turret, the kill the minionwave, while they're pushing your turret remember to thrown down your W

right on the enemy minions, doing this the two champs your laning against(sometimes one) can not attack your turret. When they are pushing you this far back, you just sit back, keep lasthitting minions and wait for a gank.
Champions Akali work well with:
Swain, or any chapion with a snare/stun(Anivia







These champions all have CC, and if youre fast enough the stun will give you time to land a Q


That combo should drop any squishy below 50% health.
Any support champion like Soraka


Cassiopiea: This is special, i have a friend who's really good at playing Cassiopiea. The damage output with these two champions is just insane.(A link to his Cassiopiea guide here!)

Vladimir

What he does is






Lee Sin


Pantheon



Malzahar




Annie


LeBlanc

Kennen

Leona



Xin Zhao




Most of them have a stun. Stun is deadly to Akali, if you get hit by as stun, your as good as dead.
Swain





Fiddlesticks




Caitlyn

But when you're solo laning as Akali she's a huge problem due to her long autoattack range.
You should try to stay out of the range at all time's.
Heimerdinger


Veigar


Tyndamere


Champions you want to play against:
Ashe


Miss Fortune

Anivia


Teemo

Brand

Zilean



Cassiopiea

(This is a maybe, for skilled Akali players, you want to go against her as she's squishy as hell).
Basically you want to go against champions with no HP and a lot of damage.
That why i grab

It is easy anyway because that's the propose of an assassin.
As Akali





Remember, Akali is very squishy, and you want to avoid all sorts of damage in a teamfight always wait untill the right moment. If you jump in too early you'll get focused. Normally all AoE spells is used in the beggining of a teamfight. That's why you either wait and let the tank ulti them all(for example Amumu's




When youre in the teamfight, sitting in the shroud, always remember too focus the Carry(the one with most kills on the enemy team.), then squishies. Ignore tanks, and dont EVER go 1v1 against champions like Xin Zhao





Akali is one of the best champions at doing this, she isn't limited by mana as many other champions. She is an energy champion, which means that you want the blue buff as often as possible. Blue buff increases your energy regeneration, which is very helpfull when you're either sololaning or ganking.
Most people would say that the red buff belongs to a (AD)melee assassin on the team, or the AD carry, well Akali


You should focus:
1. The Carry(Caitlyn


2. The squishies(Anivia



3. The melee offtanks(assassins)(Xin Zhao


4. The tank (Rammus


btw. DONT EVER FOCUS THE TANK, NO MATTER WHO YOURE PLAYING.

When you lane you obviously want to play defensive, and defend your turret. So always throw down your




What you should remember is too always last hit minions; do this while youre sitting in your


When you play ranked as






Turretdiving
Turretdiving is easy, your







First you get Boot's of mobility and three healing potions.
After that you should just get the normal build.
The important thing in Dominion is to capture points, the great thing about




What you always want to do is to take points when no one's looking, or watching over it.
Remember

New items in Dominion, that can be usefull for

Hextech Sweeper can be usefull if youre playing against a stealth champion like





As you can see my flash wasn't up from CD at that moment, but on my right i had the most of my team, and we would eventually win the teamfight. Running downwards would be pretty stupid as there's no way to go there. Going upwards is the best way too flee in this situation, i could have chosen too run with the rest of the team, but then the enemy team would catch up on me and i would die anyway.
What you wanna do when you flee as Akali, is always too confuse your enemy, and


As you can see, this time i had my flash up, so the smartest way to run would be down, and the n flash over the wall.
The two other arrow would lead me straight to my second upper lane turret, but that way would be more risky as Galio


Leave any suggestions for things i could have done better. Thanks for reading, if you like please vote it up, if you dont, tell me why!:)
My favorite Swain Build

HF and GL, Zandurk
PS. Dominion Update will come soon, involving new playmode, build etc.
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