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Hello guys it's Remus here and welcome to the REWORKED Sesaon 8 Ultimate Akali Guide, my annual series since 2012 that helped a lot of people get pentakills, as you know I main her for a hundred years and she's my favorite champion, I've played a ton of games with her, been in the top few hundred Akali players in the world many times, I'm the best Akali player in my house and I've made it to platinum 3 seasons in a row, Plat 1 highest, last season didn't play so much and only made it to Gold 1 but she's a lot better in this one, got a pentakill in the first match of the preseason and had over 60% winrate with her after many games, she's doing pretty well in placements and I'm aiming for Diamond now. She's an assassin, works mid and top but I like her mid the most so I can roam better.

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Her passive Assassin's Mark:

Damaging a champion with an ability creates a ring around them. When the ring forms, Akali gains a burst of movement speed towards it. Once she crosses the ring, Akali gains another burst of movement speed towards the enemy. Crossing the ring also empowers her kama, which increases the range and damage of her next attack. This attack also restores a small amount of energy.

Five Point Strike is her Q:

Akali throws five kunai in a narrow arc, damaging enemies directly in front of her and slowing those at maximum range. If cast with nearly full energy, Akali heals for a percentage of the damage - This was nerfed, pretty big nerf though Hextech will counter it once you have it but laning will be harder. At rank 5, Five Point Strike deals extra damage to minions and monsters.

Her W, Twilight Shroud:

Akali restores energy and creates a cloud of smoke, which slowly spreads to cover a ring-shaped area. While in the smoke, Akali is obscured and has increased movement speed. While obscured, Akali is stealthed and though her position can be revealed, Akali herself can't be—meaning she can't be targeted by abilities or attacks, including by turretsthis was also nerfed, it was really useful when diving or fighting near turrets, so you won't be as strong when diving. Akali can leave the smoke a few times to extend the duration of Twilight Shroud by a small amount.



Shuriken Flip is her E:
Akali backflips and throws a shuriken forward, damaging and marking the first enemy hit. The shuriken can also hit and mark the smoke from Twilight Shroud. Akali can reactivate Shuriken Flip to dash to the marked target, damaging enemies she passes through.


And her Ultimate, Perfect Execution:

Akali dashes up to two times, with a slight delay between. The first dash deals physical damage and briefly stuns, while the second dash deals magic damage based on the missing health of the enemy. It's also good for kill stealing.

You want to max your abilities in the following order: R Q W E and you should usually take flash and ignite on mid, or you can take teleport on top.

For the new runes, I have tried multiple versions but my favorite and the one I'll recommend to you is this one. Electrocute works amazing with her burst, you can pop it nicely together with her passive, the hextech revolver or gunblade for quite a nice burst!

I like sudden impact since it procs from the ultimate, eyeball collection is good, and you'll stack the bonus quite fast from kills or wards and ravenous hunter or ultimate hunter gives you a bit more healing from abilities, and healing on Akali is great to have same for ultimate CD reduction, so pick one of those 2 here.

And I like to combine the domination runes with precision, note that at level 1 you will have bonus AD if you don't start with an AP item. And here, I like to take triumph for even more healing and some extra gold, since you'll farm kills not minions, and coup de grace, that deals more damage to enemies that are low. Well, all enemies are low, but more damage to those low on health.

It also works well combined with resolve with Bone Plating and Second Wind or Chrysalis, but I prefer full Assassin mode! :D

I still enjoy my old build even after the rework, starting with boots for extra mobility or Doran's Shield, but you can start with armor if you play vs AD or the dark seal as well. Rush Hextech Revolver and upgrade it into Gunblade ASAP, and remember to use it in fights, it gives you AD and AP, healing from all damage dealt and the active that deals damage and slow. Upgrade your boots to Sorcerer's usually, and I like to get Rylai after for the slow and bonus health or Zhonyas, it's helpful to save yourself or wait for cooldowns, or Lich Bane, it works well with the passive and it's great at pushing towers and inhibitors. And finish the build with Rabaddon's for the great AP. Void Staff is also good sometimes, if they have a lot of magic resist, but everyone is a bit squishier this season and the assassin build works great.

You are now hidden in the W from everything now, even TOWERS, but champions that can still damage you while in it are very annoying, Lee Sin is probably the biggest problem, and others like Malzahar and Rumble that can keep harrasing and slowing you all the time are hard to deal with, and tankier champions.
Still, it's easy to deal with squishy ones, especially mages or ADCs, champions like Karthus, Ezreal or even Yasuo can't do much to you.

Everything is about that passive now, if you start a fight, go in with the gunblade if you want, land an auto attack and a Q, run back (you can use your W to avoid damage) to activate the passive, go in and auto attack with it again and use an E to active it once more, rush back in and proc it and that would be a combo without the ultimate.

With the R it's easier since you deal tons of damage from it and can jump out of the passive's circle to activate your passive directly.

On lane, it's easier now, you are not that helpless pre-level 6 as you used to be with her, you can do lots of nice combos for solid damage and even take out your opponent in many ways early game too now.

Farming got better as well, one of my biggest problems with her, since now after you max your Q it deals bonus damage to minions and it's quite easy to get them like that, not that it also heals when on high energy, it will turn orange to know when it will heal.

Like I always say, roaming is very important for Akali and many champions. You need to help your team, it's not enough to only win your lane if you don't help the others at all. Go top and bot and help them and help yourself as well by increasing the win chances and by killing a few enemy champions, it's very easy to gank with Akali because of her W and ultimate and now E to jump over walls. So if you see an opportunity go for it, it's easy to catch enemies by dashing with your E and ultimate from minion to champion, help your team and yourself whenever you can see a good opening for a roam, even if you are losing your lane, you can go and get fed on the others or at least get some assists or burn a few flashes.

And for late game and team fights, try not to go in first, wait for a tank or someone else to engage, and always focus the squishy ones first, go and insta-kill the ADC and then the mid-laner, you can jump from a front liner to the ADC or use your flash and W+E to go behind them, take them out and if you are in trouble use Zhonyas and get away with another ult. Try to remain alive by dealing damage to heal yourself, or if you are in trouble just land a W and wait for an opening or for an escape, since no one can see you in it now, but they can still hit you with AOE. You can do many nice combos in late game, and remember to always use your Hextech Gunblade, it has a nice active.

If you find a lonely enemy champion, especially if it's the ADC or mid-laner, jump on it while throwing a Q and using the Gunblade at the same time, and you should be able to take it down fast with the help of the bonus damage from the passive and the electrocute proc.

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