AkaliMatchups

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Champion Portrait of Ahri
Ahri
Hard
1,21749%-25+118
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Don't let her proc ElectrocuteElectrocute in early game with Auto-WAhri W-Auto. Try moving in and out your minion wave, so she can't hit her EAhri E, and you can bait out her QAhri Q. When trying to proc passive on her, after using shroud try sidestepping her charm with bonus W Akali WMovement Speed.

Make sure You don't all in when she has Ult or EAkali E or You can't burst her. Matchup is easy, just becomes really cringe when she gets more CDs and Horizon.

Skill Priority

Akali Q Icon
Q
Five Point Strike
Akali throws out five kunai, dealing damage based on her bonus Attack Damage and Ability Power and slowing.
Akali E Icon
E
Shuriken Flip
Flip backward and fire a shuriken forward, dealing magic damage. The first enemy or smoke cloud hit is marked. Re-cast to dash to the marked target, dealing additional damage.
Akali W Icon
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali drops a cover of smoke and briefly gains Move Speed. While inside the shroud, Akali becomes invisible and unable to be selected by enemy spells and attacks. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
49.0% WR
1,053 Matches

Summoner Spells

Summoner Spell 1Summoner Spell 2
46.5% WR
508 Matches

Skill Order

Akali Q Icon
Five Point Strike
Akali throws out five kunai, dealing damage based on her bonus Attack Damage and Ability Power and slowing.
1
3
5
7
9
Akali W Icon
Twilight Shroud
Akali drops a cover of smoke and briefly gains Move Speed. While inside the shroud, Akali becomes invisible and unable to be selected by enemy spells and attacks. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
2
14
15
Akali E Icon
Shuriken Flip
Flip backward and fire a shuriken forward, dealing magic damage. The first enemy or smoke cloud hit is marked. Re-cast to dash to the marked target, dealing additional damage.
4
8
10
12
13
Akali R Icon
Perfect Execution
Akali leaps in a direction, damaging enemies she strikes. Re-cast: Akali dashes in a direction, executing all enemies she strikes.
6
11
16

Akali vs Ahri Runes

Electrocute
Dark Harvest
Hail of Blades
Cheap Shot
Taste of Blood
Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense
Grisly Mementos
Deep Ward
Treasure Hunter
Relentless Hunter
Ultimate Hunter
Demolish
Font of Life
Shield Bash
Conditioning
Second Wind
Bone Plating
Overgrowth
Revitalize
Unflinching
48.5% WR890 Matches
Adaptive Force
Attack Speed
Ability Haste
Adaptive Force
Armor
Magic Resist
Health
Armor
Magic Resist

Starting Items

Item 1054Item 2003
49.6% WR
276 Matches

Core Items

Item 3146Item 3175Item 4645
40.0% WR
95 Matches

4th Item Options

Item 3175
51.5% WR235 Matches
Item 4645
54.9% WR182 Matches
Item 3089
52.4% WR63 Matches

5th Item Options

Item 3175
63.6% WR55 Matches
Item 4645
49.0% WR49 Matches
Item 3089
65.1% WR43 Matches

6th Item Options

Item 3089
60.0% WR15 Matches
Item 4645
80.0% WR10 Matches
Item 3135
62.5% WR8 Matches

Laning Phase (@15 min)

Akali Damage
6,456
Ahri Damage
6,998
Gold Diff-25
CS Diff-6
XP Diff-57
Ally Ganks0.99
Enemy Ganks1.22

End of Game

Akali Damage
24,025
Ahri Damage
24,894
Total Gold Diff+118
Total CS Diff-16

Split Push

Akali Dmg to Turrets
5,688
Ahri Dmg to Turrets
6,000

Community Matchup Tips

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Champion Portrait of Yasuo
Yasuo
Very Hard
1,00152%+40+28
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Skill matchup, slightly AkaliAkali favoured. QAkali Q whenever he goes for QYasuo Q on minions. Dodge his QYasuo Q.

Wait out his WindwallYasuo W if possible, so he doesn't block our QAkali Q and EYasuo E. EAkali E whenever he EYasuo E on You. If he doesn't have windwall he is free kill most of the time.

Don't walk up far away if you don't have Shroud, he will just run you down unless you are giga stronger.

Champion Portrait of Zed
Zed
Hard
68755%-173-614
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Poke him whenever he goes melee for CS. Dodge Q, especially when he has 1 or 2 Shadows from W and R. He will most likely try to poke you out before engaging, so keep that in mind.

When he wastes W you can easily run him down. He always Pops out of Ult behind you, you can easily time E1Akali E and almost 100% times hit it, unless he insta W to already existing Shadow. After hitting E1Akali E, save E2Akali E for after he wastes every dash (shadow tp) he has to follow up.

Zhonya's nice item.

Champion Portrait of Viktor
Viktor
Not Favored
64450%+248+574
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger
  • Don't get poked much.

  • We can all in him, if he missteps.

  • Don't get stunned (stuns on 3 ticks, 1.5 sec).

  • Dodge 2nd part of his EViktor E.

Champion Portrait of Sylas
Sylas
Easy
64350%+374+811
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Be careful of his ESylas E engage level 1, stand behind minions. Later if he uses his ESylas E dodge it with your own EAkali E and then use E2Akali E and Passive proc into Shroud QSylas Q trade. Use igniteIgnite right before you think he will heal.

He is not as hard for AkaliAkali as matchup, he is problematic for our team when he takes our Ult. Don't give him free WAkali W Heals. Don't take his Q2Akali Q Dmg, it's really easy to dodge, unless you get creep blocked (that happens quite often).

His E2Akali E Interrupts our E2Akali E / R1Akali R / R2Akali R. If he steals your Ult, and both of you use it at the same time, your ult will come off cd a bit earlier than he can take it again, so you can all in after bit of poke.

Champion Portrait of TwistedFate
TwistedFate
Hard
57743%-251-512
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Laning vs him is pretty easy, Extreme Threat because of his Ult. Dodge Q. Don't get hit by WAkali W (he will most likely zone you with Gold Card from wave).

Don't get Autoed by his E AutoAttack (he stacks his Auto 3 times, when stacked cards start floating around him). Use EAkali E right as he Uses W card on us. His Ult reveals us from Shroud (cringe in teamfights, lasts 10 seconds at lvl 16), can try going Banshee and wait out his ult before engaging, other than that pretty much makes us completely useless.

If he gets level 6 remind your team about it (just like with Karthus etc).

Champion Portrait of Katarina
Katarina
Easy
55054%+347+221
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Pretty much free matchup, only very few Katarinas are actually crazy good, any other Kata is free. She will automatically push wave to you by casting her Q (bounces on 3 creeps) so you can freeze wave. Don't use EAkali E until you are sure you hit it (her E is on CD) or you can try predicting where she's gonna jump (wouldn't advise it).

She can jump over your spells with EAkali E and resets. Make sure you leave her R asap, whether with EAkali E or RAkali R, it will oneshot you, and still deals damage in shroud.

Champion Portrait of Galio
Galio
Easy
50048%+140+723
0
Anguish#0666
Challenger

Cringe matchup, he is basically an Anti-AP Champion. Even if we win lane vs him, he will just go full MR and make your teamfighting almost impossible with all the CCs he has. His Autos with Passive up have huge range, make sure you don't stand near minions when he uses it.

You can heavy trade whenever he uses everything on wave. His E cancels our E2Akali E, R1Akali R, R2Akali R.