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Akali - The Fist of Shadow [UPDATED - Patch 4.5]

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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Starting Items

Boots of Choice

Core Items - Offensive

Core Items - Defensive

Viable Offensive Items

Viable Defensive Items

Sample Full Build

Ability Order

Akali Passive Ability

Introduction
Pros / Cons
Masteries
Runes
Summoner Spells
Abilities
Items
Summary
Changelog

Hey guys! This is Midnight and welcome to my guide. It took me some time to make this guide so I would appreciate if you guys would read this completely and give me some decent feedback!

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Cons

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Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: 7-8 bonus MPen is decent -- especially for burst/nuke mages like Akali -- so you don't wanna skip this out.
Greater Seal of Armor: 12-13 bonus armor is pretty good. Not to mention this is the standard seals used by most champions.
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: 12 bonus MR is also good especially since you're probably against an AP Mid. If not, then your seals will do the thing.
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power: Who doesn't want 14-15 free AP? It helps with your early game damage greatly.

: A really good summoner spell for a lot of reasons. Mainly for kill securing but it can also help shut down those nasty healing/regenerating maniacs. (e.g. , , , etc.)

: Probably the mostly used spell in the game for high leveled summoners. This is probably because it can help in chasing/escaping or even to combo it up with .

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Mark of the Assassin (Q): // Explanation.

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Twilight Shroud (W): // Explanation.

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Crescent Slash (E): // Explanation.

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Shadow Dance (R): // Explanation.

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Starting Items

It gives you a slight amount of AP and HP that will surely help early game and have extra mana sustain.

Even if you have , you'd still need more of these to help prolong your sustain in lane. This should be bought AFTER buying a until your gold runs out.

Take this trinket because... why not?

Boots of Choice

This is what you'll mostly end up with since, Magic Penetration.

I don't usually go for this but I advise you only take this if the enemy team has tons of Hard CC or even atleast your enemy mid laner has a hard CC.

Core Items - Offensive

This item's active, makes the enemy carries cry like . Aside from the AP that it gives that'll obviously increase your damage output, but if you use before your combo, it'll literally disintegrate them in a matter of seconds.

The whole point of this item, which is probably applicable to every AP Carry right there, is the HUGE amount of AP that it gives. Which in favor, allows you to deal tons of damage.

Core Items - Defensive

A really decent item for AP Carries, because this saves them from sticky situations. This might be a good idea to rush when against AD Mids. Oh and this item's pretty useful when negating strong ults like .

This item allows you to cast spells continuously without the need of the blue buff. The CDR and MR that it gives is pretty decent too.

Viable Offensive items

There's nothing better than when countering someone who is stacking magic resist. Get this after your core items and you'll shred them! (and their MR)

Don't get this that often. Unless your against someone with a low range (preferably melee) which will allow you to harass them even more. Do note that you can cast up to 6 times which (obviously) grants you 6 times to trigger .

I don't really take this most of the time, and I feel like it's only useful to counter champions who can regenerate quickly when they're on low health (e.g. , )

Viable Defensive Items

Provides a decent amount of AP and MR. The MR is great for reducing the damage taken from the enemy AP Carry AND the aura helps you deal slightly more damage to them.

This is very useful for , no kidding. It allows you to survive longer in lengthy fights/teamfights AND applies a slow on all your skills which will greatly benefit your entire team.

Pretty straightforward if you ask me. Gives you extra MR, HP and a decent passive that'll help you block CCs.

Provides decent armor and magic resist. Straightforward still -- basically you enter a fight, deal some sick amount of damage, die & revive, fight again (but be careful).