The hardest part of playing akali is pre 6 laning. Make farming your top priority over poke. a good goal is to make it to lvl6 and have 1200 gold b4 your 1st so u can buy hextec revolver. Dont even worry bout kills pre 6, if you are 0/0 @ lvl 6 its gonna b a good game. Typically hit lvl 6 B, grab your hextec revolver then start ganking. Generally bot is much easier for akali to gank then top cuz at least the adc is guaranteed to b squishy. Remember u dont have to get fed off mid, u just have to get fed so u can snowball and hopefully force sur @ 20.