Best Akali Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL

Looking for the best rune, build, spells and much more for Akali mid lane? So, you're about to read the best guide on the internet to discover the best Akali build in League of legends and dominate the mid lane against almost all champions in the game. Let's see the complete guide now!

Best Akali Build

All Akali's abilities scale with Magic damage, so the principal objects you may buy for the akali build are AP damage items. The good thing about this is that you will force the enemy team and enemy champions to buy magic resistance in order to avoid the akali's burst damage.

Akali is an amazing champion against squishy targets. She is an expert dealing magic damage, doesn't use mana and her incredible ability power and movement speed make her a difficult target to focus in team fights.

Best akali Runes

Akali's early game is one of the weakest in the game, so you need a set of runes to increase your effectiveness in the laning phase. Some recommended runes are: Presence of mind, bone plating, coup de grace, Electrocute or conqueror. The presence of mind rune will help you to preserve Akali's energy better and Bone plating rune will give you more sustain and resistance in the laning phase.

Best Rune Path	Precision	Resolve
Best Keystone	Conqueror
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Presence of Mind	Bone plating
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Legend Tenacity	Overgrowth
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Coup of Grace

Best akali Rune Shards

If you'd like to play Akali mid, then you may choose 2 offensive rune shards and one defensive rune shard. This will allow you to increase your damage in the early game and keep you safe in the lane phase. Be careful if you're dealing against an auto attack enemy champion.

Best Rune Shards	Effect
Flex	9 Ability Power
Offense	+9 Adaptive Force
Defense	+6 Armor

Best akali Summoner's Spells

If you consider yourself as an aggressive player, then consider using Flash and Ignite as summoner spells for Akali. However, if you're not sure if you can snowball your match up, then using Teleport and Flash as summoner spells is an amazing option for Akali mid. You may also use Teleport and ignite if you feel so confident and ready to take advantage of Akali's movement speed to avoid enemy champions ganks.

Best Spells	Icon
Teleport
Ignite

Best Akali Abilities Order

Knowing the skill order for Akali players is really important, and the best of everything, Akali doesn't spend mana to cast her abilities. However, consider this skill order when playing Akali, start with your Five point strike (Q), this ability is really important to poke your enemies and the higher level you get the more times you will be able to use it without spending much energy.

After maxing up Five point strike, you may continue with shuriken flip ability. Shuriken flip is really great to get closer to enemy champions and deal a lot of damage. After maxing up shuriken flip you must max up the twilight shroud to avoid enemy champion attacks and recover energy while you're hidden in the smoke cloud.

Best Akali items

The Akali build has to be focused in magic penetration and high magical damage, so some of the core items you may get with Akali are: Demonic embrace, void staff, rabadon's deathcap, zhonya's hourglass, Hextech rocket belt as mythic item and Sorcerer's Shoes. Focusing on ability power items is a must with Akali mid lane in order to deal a lot of damage (even dealing true damage) when you use the perfect execution ability plus the right items.

Best Starter Akali Items

Akali's early game can be a little weak against most champions, but after reaching level 7 or 9, Akali is a really killing master at the summoner's rift. So, to try to get a calmed early game, you should buy a doran's shield or a doran's ring plus some health potions.

First Item	Second Item
Doran’s Shield	Health Potion

Best Mid Game Akali Items

In the mid game, you must focus your gold to get the best ability power items for Akali mid. This, plus your rune set, will help you to get more damage and kills to carry your team to victory. A great idea for this game stage is buying a Night harvester or Hextech Rocket Belt and Sorcerer's shoes, this will help you spam your five point strike, rogue assassin and five kunai ability by reducing the ability haste.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item
Sorcerer's Shoes	Hextech Rocketbelt	Shadowflame

Best Final Late Game Akali Items

Akali's late game is good enough to kill the enemy's ADC and deal a lot of damage to every enemy champion, however, Akali's full build could be a little bit expensive. There are some items you may include in your late game build: Lich bane, void staff, Rabadon's deathcap, sorcerer's shoes, Night harvester and shadowflame, but you may also use zhonya's hourglass if needed.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item	Fourth Item	Fifth Item	Sixth Item
Hextech Rocketbelt	Sorcerer's Shoes	Shadowflame	Rabadon's deathcap	Zhonya's Hourglass	Void staff

These items will increase Akali damage, more ability power and reduce the ability haste for the five point strike, twilight shroud, shuriken flip and perfect execution, this will help you to delete other champions during the team fights.

Best Champions to pair akali with

If you're playing Akali mid, then you would like to pair with your Jungler to get the best results of your lane. So, to do this, we recommend playing Akali with Wukong , Ekko and Talon. This will give you a high burst damage possibility against almost any squishy champion and delete it in a few seconds. You may also learn how to play Zed, which is a great option if you love the mid laner role, read our guide about the best Zed build league of legends.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Wukong	51%
Ekko	51%
Talon	48%

Remember, be patient, max up your abilities and your five point strike, shuriken flip and twilight shroud will help you get a lot of kills and deal more damage to enemies.

Strongest Champions against Akali

Akali depends on dealing a lot of damage to her targets, however, you must avoid those match ups against high CC champions, high burst champions or champions with a good amount of magic resistance escalate. So, Akali is so weak against Galio, Akshan and Trundle, it's so important to ban those champs when playing Akali mid. Read our guide about the best Zoe build league of legends if you want to try another mid laner champ.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Galio	34%
Trundle	38%
Akshan	40%

Weakest Champions against Akali

On the other hand, Akali is really strong against squishy targets which she can reach easily. So, you can play Akali against Gwen, Yorick and Yasuo, and be confident you will probably win the game.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Gwen	53.72%
Yasuo	55.14%
Yorick	56.18%

That's all for our guide about the best Akali runes, build, spells and much more. If you're looking to dominate this game you can take a look at our guide about thebest Ahri build league of legends to start dominating the mid lane. See you at the summoner's rift!