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Akali Build

Mid Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 94,278 gamesUpdated

48.7%win rate4.3%pick16.8%ban

Who counters Akali

Every Mid matchup for Akali, ranked →

How to build Akali

Spellslinger's Shoes→Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spellslinger's Shoes → Hextech Gunblade → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

51.9% win rate 32% of games 17,047 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate HunterResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind35% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite86%
Skills
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Five Point Strike
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Twilight Shroud
214151718
Shuriken Flip
39101213
Perfect Execution
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Akali build →
48.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.8% over 168,418 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.7% over 94,278 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.8%at Emerald+
4.3%pick rate
16.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.2%under 22 min
47.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitM AkalivsFizz champion portraitM Fizz
14 / 11 / 13

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Stormsurge→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitM AkalivsYone champion portraitM Yone
1 / 9 / 1

Build

Boots|Hextech Gunblade

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QWWEQRQQQE
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitM AkalivsKatarina champion portraitM Katarina
8 / 12 / 3

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Zhonya's Hourglass→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.0% win rate · 35% of games · 33,683 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 46.6% win rate · 20% of games · 18,914 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryNimbus CloakScorch
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite86%48.8%84,423 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport12%48.4%11,962 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes85%Chainlaced Crushers11%Boots3%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 49.6% win rate

Akali build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Hextech Gunblade1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
19% of games that reach a third item take this path51.8% win rate10,069 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Akali →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 96,576 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
83% · 49.7% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
11% · 46.6% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
2% · 47.9% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 30.2% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 41.7% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
1% · 54.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes13% of games · 48.0% win rate · 12,959 games
  2. Hextech Gunblade+Spellslinger's Shoes7% of games · 45.2% win rate · 7,107 games
  3. Hextech Gunblade›Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes7% of games · 51.6% win rate · 6,630 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 54.2% win rate · 4,081 games
  5. Shadowflame›Hextech Gunblade+Spellslinger's Shoes3% of games · 45.6% win rate · 3,210 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Akali against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Akali's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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