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Akali the melee burst queen
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Spells:
Exhaust
Ignite
Ability Order
Assassin's Mark (PASSIVE)
Akali Passive Ability
Introduction
The 7
Greater Mark of Attack Damage and one
Greater Seal of Attack Damage runes (when combined with the bonus damage points from the mastery tree) will precisely activate the Spell Vamp component of Akali's
Twin Disciplines passive ability, while the 9
Greater Glyph of Ability Power and 3
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power runes are more than adequate to activate its bonus magic damage component.
The remaining 8 Greater Seal of Vitality runes are there to give some survivability that will scale to all stages of the game. I chose not to use dodge runes because dodging is only effective when someone is raining many physical attacks on you; if you play Akali correctly, that will not be happening. Akali should be more worried about things that hit once but leech her life away over time.





The remaining 8 Greater Seal of Vitality runes are there to give some survivability that will scale to all stages of the game. I chose not to use dodge runes because dodging is only effective when someone is raining many physical attacks on you; if you play Akali correctly, that will not be happening. Akali should be more worried about things that hit once but leech her life away over time.
The reason this build has
Exhaust and
Ignite are easy to explain. For one, they have useful masteries on the offense tree. Secondly, it gives you an answer to every potential target. For example, without ignite you wouldn't be able to bring down Mundo very easily. Without exhaust, you wouldn't be able to bring down DPS champs like Master Yi very easily.
Exhaust also helps keep them from making it back to their turret and it sometimes works as a getaway spell when you get in over your head. Since this build is oriented for twisted treeline, sometimes it's enough to slow one person. For summoner's rift, obviously, it's less effective.


Exhaust also helps keep them from making it back to their turret and it sometimes works as a getaway spell when you get in over your head. Since this build is oriented for twisted treeline, sometimes it's enough to slow one person. For summoner's rift, obviously, it's less effective.



As soon as you have enough money, it's time to stack the


When it comes to boots, there are really only two choices:





Would I ever recommend


The next item is a no-brainer:


A ninja doing tons of damage, so far so good. But that Doran's Sheild is starting to look a little worn out and old. More health is needed, so the last core item of the build is the

The selection and purchase order of the remaining items will be situational:






If health is low and you need to play very cautiously, or you have a solo lane against two opponents, you can just last hit minions with your
Mark of the Assassin.
Later though, with the
Crescent Slash ability, farming will become very quick and easy. If you are hanging back from a teamfight and none of the enemies wants to stick their neck out, just go push a tower, or jungle, or farm minions nearby. Don't waste too much time farming, though, because your real job as an assassin is to be getting kills.
Speed Farming
Shadow Dance to the cannon minion then mark it with
Mark of the Assassin, hit it once with an auto-attack to activate the mark (doing more damage), then use
Crescent Slash to hit all the surrounding minions. Continue auto-attacking and using
Crescent Slash to finish off any remaining minions.

Later though, with the

Speed Farming




I added this section just to say that the most important key to mastering Akali is to become adept at shroud usage.
Proper usage of her
Twilight Shroud will allow you to take mid in Summoner's Rift, or top lane in Twisted Treeline against anyone. It will allow you to defend turrets, escape ganks, juke chasers, slow fleeing opponents, solo Jax in melee and kill him, hide while Tryndamere rages (which is pretty hilarious by the way), and the list goes on and on.
If you are having problems using Akali, it can usually be solved by a creative use of Twightlight Shroud to solve the problem.
As a result, this makes Akali pretty vulnerable and thus half as effective when the enemy buys
Oracle's Elixir. Keep that in mind and ask your teammates to help you kill anyone with the pink eyeball floating over their head.
One final word of advice: if your team is planning to do a risky gank maneuver at L1, I highly advise one rank in
Twilight Shroud before
Mark of the Assassin. You can cautiously bait the enemy into focusing their attacks on you, then before your health is too low use Twilight Shroud to simultaneously slow the enemy (for your teammates to finish them off) and run away.
Proper usage of her

If you are having problems using Akali, it can usually be solved by a creative use of Twightlight Shroud to solve the problem.
As a result, this makes Akali pretty vulnerable and thus half as effective when the enemy buys

One final word of advice: if your team is planning to do a risky gank maneuver at L1, I highly advise one rank in


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