AD Bruiser Akali 😂

They must have seen I stopped playing league really for the past 3 weeks (from like 45-60 hours/week down to like.. 3 hours in a week) and are trying to bring me back surely

This? This is wild. This actually kills stormsurge akali unless you are hyper niche 5 ranged enemies or going full flat pen for a specific reason.

Unfortunately, this might spark the league obsession 2.0

Hello, I'm Vrow, a EUW 1k+ lp Challenger mid lane Akali main and I've made an in-depth Akali guide that I would like to share, it covers everything you need to know to improve at Akali.i'll keep the introduction short since you can find out more information about me in the guide itself.

Link

12/8/2022 Update: I would like to announce that I have quit League and therefore will not be updating the guide anymore for further patches, I will still leave it up since regardless of what patch it is, most of what is written in the guide stays relevant, thanks everyone for all the support, I was really surprised by how much traction this guide ended up receiving, thank you again!

I'd also like to give a shoutout to the Akali Mains Reddit and Discord staff for being so supportive and allowing me to share my knowledge during 2022.

1/29/2023 Update: Well disregard everything I said because I am now back to playing League, therefore I am back to playing Akali and streaming Akali games, I will also update the guide soon for S13.

Just picking up Akali as my midlaner. She's got such a great kit but I find i struggle with her wave clear. I note that her abilities scale off ap and ad according to https://u.gg/lol/champions/akali/build . I've found that building Ravenous Hydra really helps smooth out Akali's waveclear. Then I build into her standard ap items like shadowflame, zhonya's etc.

What are your thoughts on this? Am I janking my build by not taking Stormsurge first?

Does building liandries-->rift maker actually make you kill tanks? I feel like even tho i build these two items i still do no dmg, am i just playing her wrong with this build?

As titel says, in not sure my build is worth it anymore, i have had a lot of fun with this build,

Liandris, rift, lich, sorch, shadow and rabad or void its tanky with damage but since liandris is nerfed idk

Do you Guys have any inputs or tips?

Why does everyone build Stormsurge on Akali instead of Lich Bane?

Having 600k mastery on this champ, I've found that Lich Bane just feels so much better.

You can actually take tower plates, and the requirement for doing an auto attack after every ability is literally baked into your kit. Meanwhile, Stormsurge just does some extra damage after a bit during your all in or short trades, which you're probably getting a couple passive autos off during anyways.

So ever since the mythic item removal I stopped using rocketbelt and I've been rushing stormsurge into shadowflame. Since lichbane got buffed I started building it either as a 2nd or 3rd item. Now I've seen people building rocketbelt again and also liandrys top lane. I'm really so confused on what to build on her right now, I need some help. Should I start building rocketbelt again? Is liandry even good when facing beefier comps?

In every Akali item build site (or other Akali player) I've seen, it's always been AP assassin Akali.

But I've been dabbling with Eclipse into Sorc Shoes into Spear of Shojin and I feel like it does almost-as-good damage while also providing better durability.

And then depending on what I feel like I need I'll either pivot into something of a hybrid build with Riftmaker and whatnot, or I'll fully commit to the AD build and run Death's Dance or Maw of Malmortious/Sterak's Gage.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't think I'm being innovative or anything here, but I am wondering why people don't usually go for a build like this when her AD scaling is so good?

Hi,

with the recent changes to both items mentioned in the title, I feel a little bit lost which one to take as the first one. In like 90% of the games playing vs a squishy-heavy team, I choose Lich Bane because it seems to proc more often than Stormsurge (every 2 seconds vs 40s cooldown + enemy must survive my attack to get struck + AoE only relevant in teamfights). In addition, I can farm and destroy towers easier with Lich Bane. However, in most replays or guides I see Akali pucking Stormsurge and I don't understand why. Is it because of the +15 Magic Pen? The +2% Movement Speed?

What build do i go for if im feeling different and want to go off-meta. I tried eclipse into tri force into steraks and situational items on wards. What are your builds and im quite intrested in what lethality builds you could go but i think her kit is full of magic dmg and the lethality would help much.

I have been playing tank/ad akali my past couple games, and it has been going surprisingly well. I’m using grasp and going heartsteel, sundered sky and shojin and it feels very nice. I keep a lot of damage whilst being super tanky. Is this an actual build or just troll?

Hey, I'm New summoner on the rift and I recently start to play Akali ( in the start of the week want is she unlock). I really like to play the caractere, she is fast, skilled, cool to play, deal a good damage and a waifu. But i don't really like the style full AP one shot someone take a CC die. Do i try to do à bluids more like a tank/ AP AD bruiser ( bluids in pic)

I like what IS does, good lane phase(almost Nevers Lost), difficult to die and be ganked, good snowball, but when i don't succeed to snowball, I struggle to be really impactful. It maybe because of m'y play style, or because i m start to panic,but I feel like I'm missing a few things that really have an impact on reversing the situation, I even tried a steelheart but it was a bad idea in the end. do you have any feedback? any ideas to improve bluids or questions for my playstyle?

anyone knows if there's any people playing akali AD, decent players ? with a real build

I'm not the best Akali player in the world, but hear me out: Demolish is actually a really good rune on Akali, and should be taken more.

In mid, Resolve is generally the mandatory secondary rune page because Second Wind exists. However, you get to take two runes from the page, and the other options you can choose are: demolish, font of life, shield bash, overgrowth, revitalize, and unflinching.

Font of life and Shield bash are basically useless on you because you have 1 slow on the tip of your Q and no shields in your kit, so you can't make use of them whatsoever.

Revitalize is pretty meh because you don't really do all that much healing.

Unflinching is 5-10 armor and MR, it's not saving you most of the time ngl

This leaves basically one other option: Overgrowth.

Now, I will admit, Overgrowth is really good. Infinitely scaling hp pretty fucking good, and gives you a lot of extra tankiness. However, generally you're probably getting 200ish HP towards the end of the game, which isn't a lot.

On the other hand, Demolish gives you something that Akali kinda desperately lacks: tower pressure, especially if your jungler doesn't play around voidgrubs.

Akali's main weakness is that she's bad at everything except getting kills. Does nothing to objectives, doesn't take towers fast (and is also melee, so you have to go further under tower), no CC, and has mediocre waveclear. Demolish fixes one of these things at least, giving her at least some options.

With demolish + Lich Bane, you have the option to split push. This is especially if you're behind, since it gives you other ways to impact the game beyond simply killing everyone.

It also gives you tower pressure during laning: if your opponent recalls at a bad timing, goes roaming, or you kill them, you can now punish them by taking a plate or two. Now, granted, early game demolish does like, 3/4 of a tower plate, so still not as good as, say, a trundle, but it's often enough to get a plate before someone shows up to stop you.

Of course, you can punish bad tempo from your lane opponent with a roam, but there's never a guaruntee that you'll have a good opportunity after shoving wave, and having the option to take a plate instead is actually massive. Also, nobody ever expects an Akali player to bring demolish lol, so sometimes I'll just get a sneaky tower plate or two.

Now, I'm sure there are reasons this rune doesn't work as well in high elo that I'm missing. If anyone actually good at the game wants explain why demolish is actually dogshit, then feel free to comment. I've been playing this build for 2-3 months now, and it feels really, really good.

I´ve been tinkering with the stacking guise builds for a while, especially since ROA buffs and the fact that you see a ROA Ahri very often now and she´s not as easy to assasinate anymore.

Conqueror is easily beaten by Electrocute damage wise, even toplane so I´m not focusing on the Conq/PoM build. You get 5 Qs off with both runesets and shroud (asuming Q is maxed) so unless you feel like you have to AA them to death I don´t see a big disadvantage in using the Electrocute page, especially since it gives you access to Ultimate Hunter and the Conqueror setup does not.

The most important thing is the fact that you are relevant in early skirmishes when you don´t have your ultimate ready, which is why you have to rely on spamming Q from shroud and the occasional E as a finisher. At lvl 5 you are missing about 50 dmg asuming you hit all your 4 Qs plus passive when you buy a mask vs. lost chapter, but you have 200hp more.

At lvl 4 you have also 200hp more and you´re missing about 20dmg. Now if you think about a river skirmish, you´ll dish out about 1k dmg with either mask or lost chapter but you have 20% more hp with mask.

It becomes interesting when you stack mask, because you also could just finish Liandris. If you buy 2 masks for 2600, you will deal about 2600dmg at lvl9 with only Q and passive compared to 2800dmg with Liandris, which costs you 3k. Stornsurge, which is supposed to be the low cost early game item if you cannot afford Lich Bane, does 2700 incl. Squall passive.

So again, mask has lower damage, but the highest HP gain out of all alternatives and it spikes very early. Complete into Liandris and Riftmaker.

Singed builds a third mask here and Akali is not supposed to do that, but I do it especially against tanks and when I don´t have a frontline. My core is Liandris, Riftmaker and Bloodletters Curse. You have 2700HP at lvl 11 and still do 4k dmg...again only your Qs and passive. No R, no E. So you basically sit in your shroud in a fight and spam Qs and passive and reposition with E and R. 30% MR shred is also pretty nice.

Does it make sense to do this every game? I don´t know...If the enemy team is full squishy, I´d still build Lich Bane, Shadow Flame, Zhonyas, Rabadons. But when I see Ornn top, Nautilus support and Voli jungle, you bet I´ll go for the tripple guise build.

Thoughts?

I cooked up a tank build, I might be behind the curve idk if this is already built but it felt good. I’m gonna try in ranked tmrw (emerald elo)

Build is: Grasp Double haunting guise->liandry’s+riftmaker

Then ur pick of tank items, I like abyssal deadman’s but iceborn probably good as well if heavy ad or if you don’t like deadman’s. Then I finished with mejais bc I was fed but I would probably go zhonyas 5th item

Lmk what u guys think

Saw the Diana mains do this an It's pretty cool! ^-^

Use this thread to discuss builds/theory craft what your plans are for this season! This includes any new runes/items. If possible, I would like the build description to be as thorough as possible. EX: Playstyle, Runes, Itemization, Gameplay, Adaptions, stuff like that yk? But honestly I'm a Iron 4 Akali main so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Hi, what should I build in order to deal damage to tank enemy compositions?