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Akali Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 34,983 gamesUpdated

49.5%win rate1.6%pick16.8%ban

Who counters Akali

Every Top matchup for Akali, ranked →

How to build Akali

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

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

53.8% win rate 29% of games 5,662 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate HunterResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind28% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite87%
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
61116
StartDoran's ShieldHealth PotionDoran's Shield, Health Potion
Full Akali build →
49.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.9% over 67,054 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.5% over 34,983 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.9%at Emerald+
1.6%pick rate
16.8%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
54.3%under 22 min
48.0%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.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitT AkalivsGaren champion portraitT Garen
10 / 11 / 2

Build

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

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitT AkalivsOlaf champion portraitT Olaf
7 / 6 / 4

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Akali champion portraitT AkalivsGaren champion portraitT Garen
8 / 7 / 2

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Hextech Gunblade→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 49.4% win rate · 28% of games · 9,517 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
ResolveOvergrowthSecond Wind
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.1% win rate · 22% of games · 7,509 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 + Ignite87%49.6%31,191 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport9%47.9%3,293 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 Treads7%Plated Steelcaps5%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 50.2% 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
16% of games that reach a third item take this path53.3% win rate3,108 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Akali →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 35,398 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
82% · 50.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
7% · 48.4% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
4% · 47.8% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 38.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 41.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
1% · 55.1% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes13% of games · 48.4% win rate · 4,427 games
  2. Hextech Gunblade+Sorcerer's Shoes8% of games · 45.6% win rate · 2,739 games
  3. Hextech Gunblade›Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 53.1% win rate · 2,041 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Hextech Gunblade›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 54.6% win rate · 1,355 games
  5. Shadowflame›Hextech Gunblade+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 44.5% win rate · 1,174 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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