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Choose Champion Build:
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Lane
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Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Assassin's Mark (PASSIVE)
Akali Passive Ability
Introduction

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I am a Platinum player, and





I have played as many games with

7/10/2014
I updated the starting items section for Jungle

6/5/2014
I have updated several parts of the guide to make it fully up-to-date. I recommend

5/10/2014
With the ever shifting meta, bruisers are still taking control of many games. Since many of them build defensive and often get


5/7/2014












1/22/2014
Riot nerfed the cooldown reduction on


1/17/2014
Season 4 ranked play began today (1/17/2014).


Pros+ Burst damage + Hybrid damage + Mobility + Energy instead of mana + Amazing ganks + Good sustain + Performs well in multiple positions + Great for chasing escaping enemies + Can see in brush and over walls with ![]() |
Cons- Squishy - Weak early game - No crowd control - Vulnerable to ![]() ![]() - Has many hard counters - Difficult to learn her full potential |
Primary Runes
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These quints are a must. They are the best quints you can get for any AP champion. They give you the biggest damage increase. |
Greater Mark of Hybrid Penetration |
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Just like your quints, these are a must. They provide the most AP damage. Even though you are hybrid, you are mostly dependent on AP. These out-scale ![]() |
Alternative Runes
Quintessences
Runes




Marks
Runes




Seals
Runes







Glyphs
Runes






Offense
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Defense
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Alternatives
If you choose to take a more glass canon approach, you can remove several points from the Defense tree and put them into the AD masteries in the Offense Tree. You'll be sacrificing a lot of health for the extra damage, so be careful.
Good options for AD masteries include:






Primary Summoner Spells



Alternative Summoner Spells




















Item Sequence

Hextech Gunblade
3000

Sorcerer's Shoes
1100

Zhonya's Hourglass
3250

Void Staff
3000

Rabadon's Deathcap
3600

Lich Bane
3200



Starting Items
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First Recall
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Boots
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Core Items
Your core items are


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Even if you are ahead, the active on ![]() ![]() |
Offensive Items
You want to build offensively when you are winning your lane. More offense will give you more AP, which gives you more damage, which gives you more kills. Keep the snowball rolling, and you can build offensively all game.
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Defensive Items
If you start to fall behind, or your team is getting crushed, you need to start building defensively. There are several good defensive options for

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Situational Items
Most of the time, you won't be using any of these items. There are certain situations where you may find them useful, so here are some reasons why.
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Order of Importance
Explanation
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Passive - ![]() ![]() |
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W - This is the ability that truly makes ![]() ![]() |
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E - This is your only AoE damage ability. It is less important and does less damage than ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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R - This is the ability that makes ![]() ![]() ![]() |






When you want to secure a kill, don't forget to use




Using
Twilight Shroud will make you invisible to all enemies as long as the enemy team doesn't have some sort of stealth-detecting vision on you. You can use it to drop aggro on creeps and monsters and hide from opponents. It also grants vision in brush, so use it instead of face checking. As long as you don't attack anything while in your shroud, you remain invisible.
Use
Twilight Shroud to see over walls and
Shadow Dance to get to the monsters on the other side quickly. As long as you aren't preparing for a gank in the near future, you can use your charges of
Shadow Dance pretty liberally while jungling. You can also use this trick to juke enemies in the jungle. It's also very nifty for escaping into the jungle while in top lane by using it to quickly dash to the new Wright jungle camp between the first and second turrets on the Blue team's side.
You can also use
Twilight Shroud to glitch out the monsters you aren't focusing. It is a simple trick. Just drop
Twilight Shroud on top of all of the monsters in a camp, attack the monster you want to kill, and the others will not attack you. Be sure to spam right click on the monster you are attacking because
Akali will stop attacking by default while in the shroud. You can use this nifty trick early in the game to take less damage.

Use





You can also use




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When you are jungling, you will start with ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The most effective way to kill jungle camps is to target the big monster in the camp and use your ![]() ![]() |
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Use ![]() |
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Take ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Refer to the Twilight Shroud Mechanics & Tricks section for tips on using ![]() |
I will be adding more to this section of the guide in the near future including pictures and jungle clearing routes.

Items
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Oracle's Lens - Just like a ![]() |
Champions
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Anivia - Her passive ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Annie - Her passive ![]() ![]() |
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Ahri - Just avoid her ![]() |
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Caitlyn - Don't step on her ![]() |
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Cassiopeia - She can easily bully you out of lane. Her abilities are AoE-focused, which allows her to damage you even when you are in your ![]() ![]() |
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Cho'Gath - His abilities are AoE-focused, so he can hit you while you are in your ![]() ![]() |
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Corki - His ![]() |
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Diana - Her ![]() ![]() |
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Garen - He can silence you with his ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Galio - He is tanky, builds magic resist by default thanks to his passive ![]() ![]() |
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Heimerdinger - His turrets will keep you pressured the entire lane phase. You may be better off farming only when it is safe to do so and roaming when your lane is pushed too far out. |
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Karma - Slows, stuns, shields, and speed boosts... Whether she's playing support or AP carry, you aren't going to have an easy time with her. Most importantly, if she is trying to stun you with ![]() ![]() |
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Kog'Maw - His ![]() |
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LeBlanc - She is quite possibly the best early game champion in League of Legends. Her early burst is insane. Also, if she locks ![]() ![]() |
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Lee Sin - He is your biggest counter in the game. Your ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Leona - Stuns are your biggest nightmare. She has 3. Avoid her ultimate ![]() |
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Lissandra - She is an assassin killer. Be sure not to use your ![]() ![]() |
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Lulu - Her ![]() ![]() |
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Lux - Dodge her ![]() ![]() |
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Malzahar - Build a ![]() ![]() |
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Mordekaiser - You can't trade with him. Assuming you aren't extremely fed, he will kill you faster than you can kill him. If you have to fight him, be sure your ![]() |
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Morgana - She will stun and snare you like crazy and put her ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Nidalee - Her ![]() |
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Pantheon - He is a lane bully with much better harass than you. Don't fight him until you at least have ![]() |
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Rammus - Dat taunt will really screw you over in lane phase. After lane phase is over, you should be alright since a good ![]() |
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Renekton - He is just too beefy, has too much harass, and deals too much damage to handle. You don't want to lane against this guy. He punishes you too hard before you can reach level 6. |
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Rengar - His ultimate ![]() |
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Riven - She is resilient, has a ton of harass, and deals a considerable amount of AoE damage. Try not to lane against her. She is going to punnish you too hard before you can reach level 6. |
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Ryze - Once he snares you with ![]() ![]() |
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Shen - His ![]() ![]() |
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Sion - AP ![]() ![]() |
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Soraka - She is also very popular right now as a mid champion. Her Q, ![]() ![]() |
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Swain - He is tanky and can snare you with ![]() |
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Syndra - A full combo from her will devastate you. Dodge ![]() |
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Taric - Anyone with a point-and-click stun ability can really hurt you. You can't dodge it or juke it. |
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Teemo - His ultimate ![]() |
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Veigar - He isn't much of a counter other than his stun ![]() ![]() |
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Vi - There is basically no way to escape her ultimate ![]() ![]() |
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Viktor - He is squishy. Avoid his stun ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Xerath - You can easily win this fight as long as you engage him before he pokes you to death. Avoid the stun from Mage Chains and burst him as fast as you can. |
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Yorick - He just has too much harass and sustain to beat in lane. He is also very tanky and has built-in healing from ![]() |
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Zed - He can harass you out of lane very early. He has insane burst damage, just like you do. He can also easily outfarm you. This is one of the toughest matchups you will have to deal with. |
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Ziggs - He has great poke with his ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Zyra - Her roots and ultimate ![]() |
Do
Wait for someone on your team to initiate team fights so you can come in and assassinate the enemy carries.
Focus squishy champions in team fights.
Play passive before level 6 and you have

Use

Don't
Initiate team fights. You are not the initiator.
Focus tanks in team fights, especially if you don't have a

Use so much energy that you don't have enough for

Let your amazing chasing ability take you too far from your team.
Get snared or stunned if you can avoid it.
Build too tanky, or you won't deal enough damage.
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Best of luck on the Fields of Justice! May your
Akali skills be forever better!
Best of luck on the Fields of Justice! May your

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