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Technical Guide to New Akali [Version 8.17]

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(15) |

Great guide on Akali! Love the way the information is presented. Very clear-cut and easy-to-grasp manner. Really comprehensive and in-depth guide that's sure to help numerous amount of players. I'm looking forward to playing Akali sometime soon :) Amazing job!

(2057) |

Heya :3 Keen for a discussion?

1. Due to MobaFire's box set-up in the Cheat Sheet, items can look a little sparse. Have you thought about breaking up your Purchase Orders to give readers a better idea of which items to buy and when (at a glance, without having to read your guide, I mean), and at the same time making your Cheat Sheet look nicer? Also, you could include the trinket upgrade somewhere.

2. I'm really impressed by your match-up section (both in the guide itself and the cheat sheet) - not only is it fully comprehensive with every possible champion I could think of, each one is individualised and well-written with thoughtful and useful notes of how to counter, avoid or mitigate damage. I especially like how you've broken down the match-ups into different styles of opponent/playstyle - something I haven't seen before. Well done.

3. This is a little picky and may not be your style at all, but your pros/cons section is a little bloated with all the paragraph breaks. Also, have you thought about keeping to a particular colour-scheme with the text to match your graphics?

Cheers,
jhoi

(4) |

Hello there, and thanks a lot for the suggestions!

I do agree with the points contained in #1 and #3 (in fact, I wrote the Pros And Cons very early on this guide, before I even decided on a colour scheme - it's funny to see how much the guide changed in three days!), and I will run some experiments to better improve the readability of the guide in the points you proposed.

I really appreciate your feedback, and will make sure to use the recommendations given!

(55) |

Hello,
Really nice guide, great formating and very useful details to understand better this champion.

You got my +1 because amongst all akali guides, you were the only one to confirm (super discreetly, thanks ctrl F ^^) the detail i had in mind.

2 questions though :
1) What items can reveal Akali inside twilight shroud then ?
2) Your explanations concerning Ultimate hat CDR seems strange to me as it is exactly the opposite in the rune description ... how did you came to that conclusion ?

(4) |

Hello there! Let us go over these two questions in order.

1 - Short answer is "none", but that's a little bit of a lie. Two items in the Summoner's Rift map - and - do not outright reveal but reveal her outline inside . This means that you cannot target her with basic attacks, but you can track her whereabouts and hit her with skillshots.

Notable examples are 's and 's , which can force to exit . Skills that taunt , such as , can also be used.

So, items won't do you much good. You'll have better luck with characters that possess True Sight capability, such as or . Skills with True Sight effects do reveal inside the shroud, blowing her cover.

2 - This comes from both the community's observations and my own experiments. According to the Wiki (LINK), stacks multiplicatively, which means that you get the effective result by multiplying the cooldown remainders amongst themselves. This means that if you have 40% of CDR and 15% of Ultimate CDR from , the effective cooldown time of the skill is 0.6 * 0.85 = 0.51, meaning that you have 49% of effective CDR on your skill.

I don't like taking others on their words, so I decided to put that to the test - and they were correct. If you enter the Practice Tool, give 40% of CDR and stack to its maximum, you will see that your Ultimate Cooldown is 1.02 seconds, confirming the fact that stacks multiplicatively.

Okay, but what does that mean in practical terms? This means that at most, if you don't buy any cooldown reduction item (this means not buying and to name a few, which is very unlikely), you get 15% cooldown on your Ultimate from the Rune. If you have 20% CDR from items, you will end up with an effective cooldown of 0.8 * 0.85 = 0.68, providing an effective CDR of 32% - ergo, 's efficiency when paired with and is reduced and accounts only for a total of 12%.

I've rambled a lot, but the main aspects of this analysis are the following:
A - gets less efficient when you have CDR from items.
B - does not really benefit from Ultimate CDR as much as she would from the other Runes, as her 's cooldown refreshes fast and you should acquire most charges from kills and assists.

(29) |

I think purpose of on is that you can stack it to 15% right away, while most other champions would have to wait a long time. So later in game this isn't that efficient, but early in game when it is max stacks it could help a bit. Personally I still wouldn't take it on , but I do take it on for the reasons I said.

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(4) |

I still defend this is rather inefficient, as most of your charges should arise not from the skill's cooldown but from getting kills and assists on enemy champions.

Other Runes from the Sorcery Tree, such as and , account for the true weaknesses that bears (harass susceptibility by the opposing Midlaner and weak damage against champions with high zoning potential in the given examples), and as such they are definitely better choices.

(29) |

Yeah I agree with you. In the case of her ultimate has more complexities involved which make less of a useful Rune to take. Just pointing out a reason Akali players probably take it.

(55) |

Superb,

Exactly what i thought for vision, thanks a lot for the confirmation.

I totally trust you on that calculations, i am just totally amazed this (insults) Riot (more insults) so much he is not even able to write correct description of the power of what looks like a very simple rune lol.

Guess there are bugs in fact and Riot will maybe fix that one day (or change description because it is totally wrong as it is today)

Thanks again, keep the amazing work, take care.

(5) |

Great guide! Get's an upvote out of me.

First off I can see the detail that you put into the guide, the champ matchup section, and the playstyle section, they all scream to me how much though you placed into the guide.

My only thing against it is the section about countering against Ahri (since I play too much Ahri). It is correct to say that pre-6 Ahri is gonna push hard, that's what I would do against an Akali. It's also true that I would be trying to poke at Akali with Q when she's trying to CS or get her passive out.

But you also have to remember that walking sidways is not a guarenty way of doging the Q ball, since Ahri can move to redirect the ball, though it can reduce the damage taken. The best way to doge is to start moving while Ahri is in the cast animation, given that it looks quite different from her normal auto attack animation.

Also, while post-6 Akali can start pressuring Ahri, your R will always place you behind the enemy champ. Against an Akali who is using her ult. I would be shooting a charm right behind me and that guaranties a charm hit. And in that match up I would be maxing charm second instead of W, which would make the charm duration last much longer.

But in the end, all that means is go in when Ahri has wasted her charm, which I do think you noted in there somewhere. I've kinda forgotten what exactly you wrote.

Also, against a good Ahri, they will do the Charm + Flash combo, where they ramp up the Charm before flashing, which cancels the animation and shoots the charm from where they flash to. It's pretty tough to master, so you won't be seeing many Ahri's using it, but it is something to watch out for.

Anyways, I still love this guide. Best of luck to you.

(4) |

Hello there, and thank you so much for the comment! I was not aware about the Charm and Flash combo, so that insight is certainly very useful for me.

You are indeed correct that wasting her Charm is the best strategy, and you are also correct when you say that it's somewhere in the guide ("The strategy you'll use is the same: simply watch out for Ahri's Charm and dodge sideways with Twilight Shroud, then get close to her with Shadow Dance"), in order to prevent the possibility of a backwards Charm.

Walking sideways, as you also mentioned, is not a guarantee that you will avoid Orb Of Deception; however, it's better to dodge by walking sideways than backwards on most cases. Even in Ahri has hit you during the first movement of the orb, walking sideways will prevent the second movement to hit you (except if you are too close to the orb's path end) because the resultant movement of the orb is similar to a triangle.

(It's not exactly a triangle because of technical and mathematical reasons - namely, the fact that the path of the orb is recalculated during each step based on Ahri's relative position, which means that at a given second you'll have the derivative of the orb's path. The path is actually a parabola, but a triangle is good enough as an approximation!)

Because of that, walking sideways works if you are not close to the end of the orb's path (I'd have to run the numbers in order to give a precise, numerical answer), and this is why I urge players to focus their motions in a side-to-side way when facing Ahri.

(5) |

Yeah, there is also a lesser-known trick which is to charm + ult.

The different between the charm + flash and charm + ult is that the flash will have the charm shoot out from where the flash ends up at. The charm + ult cancels the animation, but the charm fires off from where it is cast, and not from where Ahri goes.

One thing that you might want to add is to make sure to shroud to the side of Ahri after ulting in. I think I hit too many charms on them because they don't move their mouse before shroud, and end up in the same location.

(5) |

Really nice guide! I saw your post on the new guide contest (doing the same myself) and wandered over. I'm starting to learn mid right now, and your detailed matchup analysis is very helpful. Great content!
upvote and +rep

(4) |

I am glad this was of assistance to you! I wish you the best of luck in the contest and, as I wrote on the review I left in your guide, I'm really glad that we don't have to compete in the same category. xD

(29) |

Very well done guide. Lots of detail put into it and I can tell you really know this champion. Upvoted and commended. Hope to see more work from you on this site.

(4) |

I really don't know what to say, I was just taken aback by this. I expected that people could enjoy the guide, but I never thought it would take that proportion.

Thank you very much for the kind words and for the commend. I do not have enough words to express my gratitude.

(45) |

Lots of good info here man, you can tell a ton of effort and thought went into making this guide, well done man!

(4) |

Thank you so much! I'm really glad that you enjoyed the guide.

This is the best guide of any champion that I've seen in the internet. It's just so complete, very well done. As a Platinum 2 Akali main with roughly 200k mastery points, I thought I already know a lot about her. Thank you so much KlavierGavin for this guide

(4) |

Wow, I'm just speechless. Thanks a lot for the compliments, they are really important for me.

I wanted to build a resource that would benefit both beginners and veterans alike, and I'm glad that I could reach my objective. I hope this guide may help you soar even higher - please tell me if the tips helped you, my message box is always open!

(4) |

Woah, why doesn't this get more views, this is by far the best and most in depth guide on I've seen so far, great job man!

(4) |

That means a lot to me, thank you!

Perhaps the lack of views comes from the fact the guide is super recent - I released it only two days ago. I hope that more people might access it in the nearby future, though; that would mean a lot to me.