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Akali Build

Bot Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 400 gamesUpdated

42.7%win rate0.0%pick16.8%ban

Who counters Akali

How to build Akali

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

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

43.6% win rate 22% of games 55 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate HunterResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind36% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite73%
Skills
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Five Point Strike
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Twilight Shroud
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Shuriken Flip
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Perfect Execution
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StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Akali build →

Best supports for Akali

Who Akali has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

42.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 37.0% over 698 gamesPatch 26.21: 42.7% over 400 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
16.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
53.8%under 22 min
45.6%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 portraitB Akali+Senna champion portraitS SennavsTwitch champion portraitB Twitch+Lulu champion portraitS Lulu
8 / 7 / 7

Build

Boots|Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap→Void Staff

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitB Akali+Karma champion portraitS KarmavsSyndra champion portraitB Syndra+Alistar champion portraitS Alistar
3 / 5 / 1

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQ
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitB Akali+Nautilus champion portraitS NautilusvsKatarina champion portraitB Katarina+Senna champion portraitS Senna
13 / 5 / 3

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 43.2% win rate · 36% of games · 118 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 35.9% win rate · 28% of games · 92 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 + Ignite73%42.8%304 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport16%34.8%66 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes84%Mercury's Treads8%Boots6%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 41.7% 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
12% of games that reach a third item take this path43.3% win rate30 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Akali →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 413 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
81% · 41.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
8% · 43.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes12% of games · 20.0% win rate · 50 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. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Akali's average instead of 50%.

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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