Introduction

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First i have to say, that i love Akali very much, because she does very heavy damage to all mage and carrys who don't skill tanky/tank! The Mainskill of her is her Mark of the Assassin. This one is doing sooo much damage and in combination with Lich Bane it does more than the halfe of their live! But more see bottom! I'm just in the middle with Akali, because here all the opponents are weak, which can be easily overcome. In addition, Akali will also be in the middle level 6 faster, and has her grand ulti faster...Up to Akalihas her ulti she is Pro, cause her Ulti is the best :D

Akali

Story:

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There exists an ancient order originating in the Ionian Isles dedicated to the preservation of balance. Order, chaos, light, darkness -- all things must exist in perfect harmony for such is the way of the universe. This order is known as the Kinkou and it employs a triumvirate of shadow warriors to uphold its causes in the world. Akali is one of these shadow warriors, entrusted with the sacred duty of Pruning the Tree - eliminating those who threaten the equilibrium of Valoran. A prodigal martial artist, Akali began training with her mother as soon as she could make a fist. Her mother's discipline was relentless and unforgiving, but predicated on the fundamental principle: ''We do that which must be done.'' When the Kinkou inducted her into the order at the age of fourteen, she could slice a dangling chain with a chop of her hand. There was no question - she would succeed her mother as the Fist of Shadow. She has had to do much in this role which others might find morally questionable, but to her it is in service of her mother's inviolable doctrine. She now works with her fellows Shen and Kennen to enforce the balance of Valoran. This hallowed pursuit has unsurprisingly led the triumvirate to the Fields of Justice. ''The Fist of Shadow strikes from the cover of death itself. Do not impede the balance.''

Skill Explanation

Akali's passive:

• 1st part of Akali's passive is, that she get an extra Spell vampire (8%), when she gets 10 additional damage through items, runes, masteries, etc.
• 2nd part of Akali's passive is, that she get 8% extra magic damage to her autoattack, once she has 20 ADDITIONAL AP
• Both parts increases 1% each 6 ADDITIONAL Attack Damage or AP!
• Her passive is very useful to farm, cause you deal more Damage the more AP you have!

Akali spins her kama at a target enemy to deal 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds. Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and restore 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 energy.

Cooldown: 6 / 5,5 / 5 / 4,5 / 4 sec
Costs: 60 Energy
Range: 600

• Akali's Q is very great. First Mark of the Assassin does Damage when you put it onto a Target, and if you hit this Target a second time, you will activate the Mark and this is doing very heavy damage.
• I choosed this skill first, because with lvl 1 when you guard jungler or counterjungling, and one of the opponents rush into your bush, you do great damage to him, and he will start with running away, but caused by your boots, you are faster and will catch him!
• I also maximate this skill first, because the Activating damage increases with every time you lvl Mark of the Assassin up!

Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 armor and magic resist and becomes stealthed. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her for 0.5 seconds.
Enemies inside the smoke have their movement speed reduced by 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30 %.

Cooldown: 20 sec
Costs: 80 / 75 / 70 / 65 / 60 Energy
Range: 700

• Akali's W helps her to escape very good, and in teamfights it is very useful to don't get focused.
• I choosed it with lvl2 first time and maximate it last with lvl 18, cause the effect which get higher each time you lvl Twilight Shroud up is unimportant.
• Another reason why i choosed it with LVL2 is, because if a Shaco or other jungler ha doubble Buff with 2:45 and ganks mid, i am still LVL2 and can hide from him.
• Also if the Mid opponent is very strong and you have problems with defending your tower, if u put your Twilight Shroud normally all opponents run away, cause they fear, you attack them!

Akali flourishes her kamas, hitting nearby units for 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 physical damage (+30% of ability power) + 60% Attack Damage and activating Mark of the Assassin's secondary damage.

Cooldown: 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 sec
Costs: 60 / 55 / 50 / 45 / 40 Energy
Range: 325

• Akali's E is nice to farm, and is also doing great damage!
• If you have put the Greater Mark of Attack Damage this skill is doing extra damage, because the damage increases for Attack Damage of Akali. Cause of this, i buy Hextech Gunblade at the End of the Game.
• This skill also can activate Mark of the Assassin if you can't reach him for Autoattack but if he is in range of Crescent Slash cast it and do dmg!

• Akali's Ulti is the best which Riot has done!! It's like your personal Flash and it also does very great damage!
• In combination with Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Lich Bane just this skill is doing 1/3 of their Live away!
• I love this skill, because you can cast him three times with just an cooldown of a few seconds (2 / 1,5 / 1)!

Items

Item Sequence

Hextech Gunblade 3000

Rabadon's Deathcap 3600

Lich Bane 3200

Zhonya's Hourglass 3250

Void Staff 3000

Enchantment: Homeguard 450

• I always start with Boots and 3 times Health Potion, because of the running speed and the 450 HP you can regen if you get hit of your opponent. So you can last longer at your Lane, and dont fall back with your farming and your level.
• If you get ganked earlier than you can buy the Boots upgrade, you are as fast as the jungler and you can escape him!

• Hextech Revolver gives you extra Ability Power and the main reason cause i buy it, is the spell vemp! If you think, "boa this few live you gain back, i don't need this"; it safed my live many times when Karthus tried with his Ulti to kill me, cause with your full Kombo casted on Minions, you gain ca. 200-300 HP back!
• And in a fight, if your opponent follows you and hopes that he can kill you, you jump onto him (gain HP back), hide with Twilight Shroud and do Mark of the Assassin (Gain HP back when put on Target, and get HP back when activate it)!!!

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• The choice of your boots depends on your opponents. If the opponent team has 4 AD and 1 Mage, it's better to buy Ninja Tabi.
• But if the Team has as much AD as AP, i also choose Ninja Tabi cause i get Magic Resistance with Lich Bane.
• I also buy Ninja Tabi altought i fight against a mage mid, cause the ganks are often AD and in lategame i have enogh Magic Resistance.
• You also have to be carefull,cause one stun can kill Akali quickly, because she don't has much Health and Defence. So if the opponent Team has many stuns, buy Mercury's Treads

• This Item is very great, because of the slow and the extra Live!
• I buy it before Rabadon's Deathcap because of the Effect, and the AP! When i have Rylai's Crystal Scepter i normally have 150 AP, and this is enogh for just one Item and early game.
• It helps you to survive and stay alive, cause of the Giant's Belt. Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter noone can run away from you, cause you will have your Shadow Dance when you buy it.

• This Item makes Akali more dangerous. Rabadon's Deathcap 140 AP and 30% EXTRA AP!
• Once you have Rabadon's Deathcap you are dealing Really great damage to your opponents!!
• But if you are good with akali, and have much Kills, they will surrender when you have bought Rabadon's Deathcap because they think, you get fed with Akali and they won't have a good chance to win! They have no chance to win against you except they are clever enogh to skill to Magic Resist to get safe from you!

• Lich Bane is very usefull with Akali, cause in combination with her Mark of the Assassin you are unstoppable! Both deal extra damage with attack a second time!
• If you count the damage of Activating your Mark of the Assassin and the damage of Lich Bane togehter, you do more than 1/2 of the live of your opponent damage!!!
• Additional you get Magic resist and Additional AP! Lich Bane is a MUST for every Akali!
• Many people ask, why not Lich Bane directly after Rylai's Crystal Scepter? Well i answered, that the effect of Lich Bane depends on the amount of AP you have. So if you buy Lich Bane before Rabadon's Deathcap the efficiency of the effect decreases, therefore i buy Rabadon's Deathcap before Lich Bane!

• Void Staff is just for the End of the game, if all opponents start to buid more Armor and Magic resistance.
• You get 80 AP with it and 40% Magic Penetration! That is very helpfull against tanks and Tanky Champs.
• But only at end of the game you shoud buy this, cause if u buy it earlier, you dont do enogh damage, and then it's nonsense.

• Hextech Gunblade is a usefull uprade from your Hextech Revolver you bought at the begin of the game.
• This is just for your Crescent Slash and to restore your HP after fight cause of the Livesteal!
• After it your build is finish, and you can buy pots, and Elixirs.

• I don't choose this boots for Akali, because if you need the Magic Penetration you have Void Staff
• With them you are more squishy than with Ninja Tabi or Mercury's Treads.
• I can't recommend these boots.

• If your opponents have quite much champs with stun, you get killed very fast, so the Effect of Zhonya's Hourglass is quite usefull for weak assassins!
• Also the additional Armor is super, it protects you from AD Carrys!

• This is a very risky Item, because you lose a part of the stacks when you die. So i just would buy it, when you get fed and be sure, that you don't die so often!
• If you get fed and use it, it is a great choise, because with 20 stacks you have additional cooldown reduction and a big amount of AP!

• This is slso a good opinion to Void Staff, because here you get additional magic resistance.
• but you have less magic Penetration!

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Combos

Lich Bane

Lich Bane

Akali's Combo from LVL1-5 Without Lich Bane

• Open your Combo with Mark of the Assassin that will slow him (if you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and do damage.
• Then try to reach him, in case of need put Twilight Shroud onto him to slow him
• Next hit him with Autoattack to activate your Mark of the Assassin and do quite good damage
• If you don't use your Twilight Shroud to reach him, use it to protect you from conters of your opponents.
• At least you do your Crescent Slash to hit him with something to make his Health down.
• If you are far away from HIS tower, and you think you can kill him, put your Mark of the Assassin onto him
• next try to reach him, in case of need use Flash,
• hit him to activate your Mark of the Assassin
• next Ignite him
• last look to your Cooldown of Crescent Slash, and if u can hit him with this!

Akali's Combo from LVL6-18 Without Lich Bane

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

• Open your Combo with Mark of the Assassin that will slow him (if you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter), and do damage.
• Then put Shadow Dance onto him to slow him (if you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter)
• Use your Twilight Shroud to protect you from conters of your opponents.
• Next hit him with Autoattack to activate your Mark of the Assassin and do quite good damage
• At least you do your Crescent Slash to hit him with something to make his Health down.
• If you have another Essence of Shadow, and you think you can kill him, put your Mark of the Assassin onto him
• next try to reach him with Shadow Dance
• hit him to activate your Mark of the Assassin
• next Ignite him
• last look to your Cooldown of Crescent Slash, and if u can hit him with this!

Akali's Combo from LVL6-18 With Lich Bane

Lich Bane

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

• Open your Combo with Mark of the Assassin that will slow him , and do damage.
• Then put Shadow Dance onto him to slow him.
• Next hit him with Autoattack to activate your Mark of the Assassin, activate the Effect of Lich Bane and do quite good damage
• Use your Twilight Shroud to protect you from conters of your opponents.
• At least you do your Crescent Slash to hit him with something to make his Health down.
• Hit him another time with Autoattack, cause the effect of Lich Bane comes anther time when casting Crescent Slash
• If you have another Essence of Shadow, and you think you can kill him, put your Mark of the Assassin onto him
• next try to reach him with Shadow Dance
• hit him to activate your Mark of the Assassin and the effect of Lich Bane
• next Ignite him
• last look to your Cooldown of Crescent Slash, and if u can hit him with this!

Masteries

• Summoner's Wrath this increases your Ignite and gives you free 5 AP and 5 AD if you used it!
  
  
• Fury Because of your Melee, and sometimes your Abilities are on Cooldown, it might be helpful to buff your attackspeed.
  
  
• Sorcery The Cooldown reduction is very important, cause then your Skills has less CD and you can spam them like hell!
  
  
• Deadliness To get the from your passive, Twin Disciplines, needed amount of attack damage, its better to use it.
  
  
• Blast For AP champs a must, because it increases your Ability Power per level.
  
  
• Mental Force A must for AP champs, because of 4 AP you get with this!
  
  
• Brute Force You need it for your passive Twin Disciplines.
  
  
• Spellsword Very nice combination with your passive, Twin Disciplines to deal extra damage with your auto attacks...thats like Oriannas passive Clockwork Windup.
  
  
• Sunder To encrease the damage output.
  
  
• Archmage Increases your Ability Power by 5%
  
  
• Executioner increases the damge you do on champs by 6% when their live is below 40% of their maximum health.

Gaming

Akali

• Very often you get bet to guard and push jungler, so you pull Blue Buff and run back into midlane. Cause of your Boots, you are faster or as fast as your enemy, so you can push your Mark of the Assassin onto him to harass him, cause more you can't do at this Moment.
• You can push your Twilight Shroud always onto the enemy's magic minions (the 3 last ones) so the enemy fears and runs away. That's a trick how you can farm easier in mid, but care, you used your Twilight Shroud so if you get ganked, you are helpless!!

• Once you reached LVL6, you should wait, till you have at least 2 Males of the Assassin, cause you need your ulti more than 1 time to kill an enemy!
• Just go on farming, and hope, that someone of your team ganks you in the next time.
• Once you get LVL7 you have ca. 1000 Gold, now try to harass your opponent hard.
• Next step is to try to kill your harassed opponent with your combo.
• If you killed him, or you missed the kill for a few health and he has to port himselve back, you can also go back and buy Hextech Revolver and sone sight wardss and Health Potions.
• Put at least one sight ward into one bush of the midlane and always stay of these side of the lane, cause there you see the opponent ganker before he reaches the bush!
• Harass your enemy with Mark of the Assassin --> Shadow Dance --> Crescent Slash to activate the Mark --> Twilight Shroud to get safe and then back to your minions and farm!
• Next time you can kill your enemy easily!

• In the Endgame you can beat each Carry easily solo, cause in your Twilight Shroud they can't do something to you! But watch out, if they have Oracle's Elixir or some Vision Wards!
• Try to farm lot's of minions, cause 2,5 waves of them equals one enemy kill!
• Don't forget to ward the map, also the important Points, you can find more information here! Read it, it is very helpful!

• In Team fights you are important for killing the carrys and mages.
• If a teamfight starts, wait a little bit, and then jump across the battlefield and push your Twilight Shroud onto your target (should be a weak carry, who focused one of your team except you!) and do all your skills in the right combo!
• These tactic is very useful, cause you get one, maybe 2 or 3 kills, and you win the teamfight cause you focused the right Champ!!
• Twilight Shroud helps you a lot in teamfights, cause normally they try to focus you (easy, weak, what ever), but now they can't see you, except they have Oracle's Elixir!
• Should someone of their team manage to escape, jump on him with Shadow Dance, slow him and do your combo, or let your team follows you!

Other Champions

Akali

Akali

• Brand (Watch out to his Pillar of Flame, it can hurt you bad, and just jump on him, if he wasted Pillar of Flame and Conflagration to farm minions! He is weak, but if he does his full combo onto you, he could beat you too, so watch out to his Pillar of Flame)
  
• Cassiopeia (Is in early game and at Start very annoying, cause she has a big range of her skills, and you can't harass her very well...so you will need many ganks. If she farms too much, use your Twilight Shroud to make her running away of the minion waves!
  
• Karma (is a supporter, so she doésn't do very high damage, but is rare in mid)
  
• Lux (also can do high damage, but if she wasted her skill for farm, jump and kill)
  
• Orianna (is a supporter, and just can throug her ball ono you, but if she does, jump and kill)
  
• Morgana (has without her ulti just 2 skills which are doing damage, so if she trys to attack you, and her Q misses, jump and kill)
  
• Soraka (supporter with just a silence and an AoE...care, she can hit you in your Twilight Shroud)
  
• Twisted Fate (he has his card throing, and sometimes he can stun, so wait till he used his stun, look that he doesn't reach you and then jump and kill)

• Anivia (she is annoying with her ulti, which is an AoE, and her passive Rebirth)
  
• Annie (can cast one skill directly onto you, has 2 AoE and sometimes stuns you)
  
• Blitzcrank (he is dangerous, cause he can catch you, push into the air and silence next to his tower, and you can't do something)
  
• Fizz (his ulti slows you, and he can quite good escape, if you are too good for him)
  
• Gragas (has lot's of AoE's with high damage)
  
• Karthus (can slow you and he has a AoE, and his passive annoys)
  
• Kassadin (can be annoying too, because he can silence you, slow you and with his ulti he can escapes you easily)
  
• Katarina (with her Shunpo she is an assassin too, and all assassins can escape you well)
  
• Kennen (has a stun, and with his Ulti he has an AoE)

• Fiddlesticks (he has with his ulti an AoE, can fear you for 2 seconds, so you cant do anything if one ganks, can silence you for a long time and can heal himselve easily)
  
• Heimerdinger (he can blin you, so you can't activate your Mark of the Assassin, his turrets are annoying and with his ulti hhe can slow you)
  
• Lee Sin (he can detect you in your Twilight Shroud, can slows veryy well and has a slow)
  
• Rammus (hits you with his roll in your Twilight Shroud, can taunt you, so you can't do something and has an AoE)
  
• Shaco (you don't see him, till he is next to you, his Jack In The Box fears you and he can detect you in Twilight Shroud)
  
• Swain (he can slow you, has a AoE, which holds you in your position and his ulti makes him dangerous)
  
• Veigar (tons of damage with his Dark Matter, has an AoE stun, and his ulti is annoying)
  
• Ziggs (he has 4/4 AoE Skills, can slow you, can "jump" into your direction and does tons of damage with his Q and ulti)
  
• Garen (he can silence you, his spin is an AoE and his Ulti does tons of damage)
  
• LeBlanc (she also has CC (silence) and does more dmg that you. Additionally she has her jump to you, and suddelny jump back before you recognized! I had bad experience against her)

LoL-Replay

• Mid against Karma easy...Here the Replay.
  
• Mid against Fizz balanced fight...Here the Replay
  
• Mid against Diana balanced fight...Here the Replay
  
• Mid against Ezreal balanced fight... Here the Replay
  
• Mid against Ezreal easy... Here the Replay

Tipps & Tricks

• Important in early game is the farming. Until you are LVL6, farm and harass the enemy, and don't play aggressive until you reach LVL6, cause just with your Shadow Dance you are dangerous!
  
  
• I always play Akali mid, cause there you have weaker opponents. If you have the chance to solo top or middle lane always take it! Top lanes' brush and its layout is better, and if you are in middle harassing correctly and farming you can deprive the enemy.
  
  
• Don't forget to buy Health Potion and sight wards to protect you from ganking, and you can see if the enemys want to kill dragon or baron nashor.
  
  
• Buy Vision Wards always when you have Gold and can't do anything with it. So you can see, if you opponents out wards there, and if he did, you can destroy them!
  
  
• After a teamfight when you stay alive, and you see 2 enemys with halve of their live or lower, attack the weaker one of the both and kill him, cause of Twilight Shroud the other can't kill you!!
  
  
• As an assassin you have to gank very often...each time you see, that your mid-enemy ports back, gank bot or top, to get a kill! (just after reaching LVL6!)
  
  
• Get Red Buff as often as you can, cause it is an additional slow and gives you extra damage!
  
  
• Wait with casting your Twilight Shroud till you jumped onto him...then he can't attack you and will be slowed so you can easier reach him to activate your Mark of the Assassin!

Special Thanks

• Ex Vi
• Marko333
• Incanzio
• Vapora Dark
• Zippo333
• Quietschie
• Slyther Blade
• Thx to Panglot for these warding guide!
• Thanks to jhoijhoi for the sig(s)!