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Akali - The healthy ninja (Season 3 Ready)

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Spells:

Ignite

Flash

Items

Starting Items

Building the Core

Core Items

Late Game Items

Other Great Items

Boots + Enchantments

Ability Order

Akali Passive Ability

Welcome to a surviving yet deadly Akali Guide

Hello Summoners.
Welcome to my first build, this build involves a sustain Akali, throughout my plays with and against akali I noticed Akali of course being a deadly burst champion yet she's kind of squishy early game as most champions are, so I hope to eliminate this problem with a few item focusing on health but, adding to the extra ap power.

Pros / Cons

Pros / Cons

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Pros

+ Great burst of Damage
+ Escape tools
+ Versatile
+ Attack animation makes it easy to farm
+ Flippin Ninja
+ No mana!

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Cons

- No Crowd Control
- Squishy Early Game (Hope to fix that with build
- Crowd Control Counters
- Focused Often
- vision wards and oracles cripple her chance of getting kills
- accused of kill steals
- Hard to master

Masteries

Offense Tree
The extra 5 damage/ Ability power will be handy while Ignite is on CD
Ap Akali...
The More CDR you have on Akali the faster you'll be able to spam spells on your enemy
Magic Pen to by pass any magic resist you may come across later in game
Sort of a buff added to your damage output
Ap per level...Ap Akali...
basically life steal, useful for recovering after a team fight.
a small buff to deal about 6% more damage to a enemy champ's who current health is below 40% health
Defense tree
Magic Resist
Armor
Health per level
+30 Health

Runes

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

Magic Pen Over AP
Greater Seal of Vitality Hp Per level, better then flat hp runes
Getting more Ap as you level up, to keep up with your Ap casters and or enemy Caster.
Again Ap right off the bat.

Summoner Spells

: For finishing off enemies

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: Great for escaping. pop near a wall, then through it

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: Great for protecting turrets, allies, and turning a team fight around.

How Akali Rolls

As an your main objective during a Team fight is to burst down either the Ap, support, or adc, obviously your gonna wanna focus down the adc, as the Adc may or may not be the main threat depending on weather the adc is fed or not. Back to Again your the high damage dealer but with the item build i showed and explained to you, your chances of surviving a team fight has increased.
*note everyone is entitled to their own opinion on how they build a certain champion, and i respect that build your champions your way and I build my champions my way, I just care enough to show you how, and why.

Skills

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Twin Disciplines: This skill makes Akali a tiny hybrid, your getting extra damage which is useful.
Mark of The Assassin (Q): Akali Tosses her kama to deal magic damage and applies a mark which can be consumed by a basic attack, Crescent Slash, or Shadow Dance.
Twilight Shroud (W): Akali's smoke pellet, it will stealth Akali in the circled area, great for annoying the enemy champ, useful for jukes and quick escapes.
Crescent Slash (E): Akali slashes enemies around her, nothing more i can say great farm tho.
Shadow Dance (R): This ulti is what makes Akali so deadly, she can blink to her enemy and deal Ap damage, This skill can be used in a multiple of ways, for example, escaping, or chasing, blink to a minion to escape or chase.

Items

Starting items

Item Sequence

: Magic Pen for Burst damage.
: Grab this item for the great ability power, and magic pen, going for this item early game will be useful because I do take the time to build some health items, Void Staff will help keep your damage output high while building some health items.
: This item is very useful on Akali you get 500 Health, plus your skills will slow your targets movement speed, which is great for chasing down enemies.
: I pick up this item for more ability power, and the spell vamp will come in handy plus the active will deal 300 damage and slows the target by 50%, really useful if your pinned down by cc and you see a low health enemy this can be useful for finishing them off, and or chasing down an enemy
: Ok ok, I know the deal with this item and you might ask why not swap it out for Lich Bane or whatever, yeah I get it's more useful then Trinity Force but the thing with Lich Bane is NO HEALTH, my build strictly focuses on ap/ health, you can easily find more builds with Ap Akali. READ THE INTRODUCTION!.
Anyways I pick up this item pretty self explanatory
: POWERFUL Ap,

Farming

Farm early if you can, try not to get zoned, and last hit using , you can spam it easily cause Akali does not use Mana, shes dependent on energy

Q+R+E

Basic skill sequence that should be followed to secure you a kill.
start off with followed by which will consume the mark you left with add some more damage with , rinse and repeat until the enemy is dead

Updates

5/31/12
* Rune update
* Big guide update
* spell sequence
* picture updates
6/13/12
*Simple format for runes, masteries, items, and skills
*Added picture to introduction
*Grammar check :)
8/8/12
*Removed and added some runes

9/7/12
*Improved Pros and Cons
*Improved Runes
*Improved skills
*Improved Items
*Added a team fight section
*Added a Q+R+E section

2/11/13
*Updated for season 3
*Changed Merc treads for Sorcerer's Shoes. I decided that Magic pen was much better then low cc duration, but also kept Merc's treads as an optional Item.