Akali Build, Runes, Abilities, Matchups

In League of Legends Wild Rift Akali is a Assassin that highly play in Mid Lane. View Akali Best builds, Runes, Matchups, and more here!

Akali Build Guide

Full Build

Hextech Gunblade	Infinity Orb	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Rabadons Deathcap	Morellonomicon	Void Staff

In Wild Rift Akali build items that increase Magic damage, attack damage, and magic penetration so she can be the main magic damage of the team.

Enchantment: Stasis is an item that Akali should build.

Core Items

Hextech Gunblade

Infinity Orb

Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Akali core items are Hextech Gunblade, Infinity Orb, and Ionian Boots of Lucidity.

The core items increase Attack damage, Magic damage, health, and Magic Penetration.

Other Options

Luden's Echo	Rod of Ages	Rylais Crystal Scepter
Liandrys Torment	Void Staff	Protobelt Enchant

Down below are different techniques to build on Akali against different enemy match up.

Build Vs Fighter

Hextech Gunblade	Lich Bane	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Morellonomicon	Rabadons Deathcap	Void Staff

Build Lich Bane to get extra magic damage, and movement speed.

Build Liandry's Torment to get more magic damage, and health.

Build Vs Assassin

Hextech Gunblade	Liandrys Torment	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Rabadons Deathcap	Morellonomicon	Void Staff

Build Liandry's Torment to get more magic damage, and health.

Build Morellonomicon to get magic damge, health, and magic penetration.

Build Rabadon's Deathcap to deal high magic damage.

Build Vs Mage

Hextech Gunblade	Luden's Echo	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Rabadons Deathcap	Rylai's Crystal Scepter	Morellonomicon

Build Luden's Echo to increase magic damage, and cooldown reduction.

Build Rylai's Crystal Scepter to increase magic damge, health, and slow enemy.

Build Stasis Enchant to survive mage combo skills.

Build Vs Tank

Hextech Gunblade	Lich Bane	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Rabadons Deathcap	Morellonomicon	Void Staff

Build Lich Bane to deal bonus attack damage and magic damage to enemy.

Build Void Staff to get Magic Penetration, and effectively attack tank champions.

Ultimate Mage

Hextech Gunblade	Awakened Soulstealer	Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Morellonomicon	Rabadons Deathcap	Void Staff

Recommend in-game build.

Akali Runes

The best Wild Rift Akali Runes are Conqueror, Brutal, Regeneration, and Hunter Genius

Fleet-Footwork	Moving, attacking and casting builds energy stack. At maximun stacks, your next attack heals and grants increased movement speed.
Brutal	Gain AD/AP and penetration.(Adaptive).
Regeneration	Periodically regen your missing health or mana based on whichever percentage is lower.
Hunter Genius	Unique champion takedowns grant Ability Haste.

Summoner Spells

Flash	Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aim direction.
Ignite	Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 60 true damage (60-410) over 5 seconds and inflicting them with Grievous Wounds.

Akali Abilities Guide

Skill Detail

Assassin Mark	Dealing active ability damage to a champion reveals a ring for 4 seconds. Crossing the ring empowers Akali's next attack to gain 100 range, deal 40 bonus magic damage and restore 15 energy.
Five Point Strike	Throws Five kunais, dealing 67 magic damage. Enemies struck at maximum range and slowed by 50% for 0.5 seconds. Cooldown: 1.5 Energy: 95 / 90 / 85 / 80
Twilight Shroud	Creates a smoke cloud that expends over 5.5 seconds and restores 80 energy. Akali is invisible and gain 30% movement speed inside the shroud. Attacking breaks the invisibility for 0.8 seconds. Cooldown: 17.6 Energy: 0
Shuriken Flip	Flips backward and throws a shuriken, dealing 63 magic damage and marking the target for 3 seconds. Re-cast: Dashes to the marked target, dealing 64 magic damage. Cooldown: 14.6 / 12.7 / 10.7 / 8.8 Energy: 30
Perfect Execution	First Cast: Dashes through an enemy champion, dealing 85 physical damage. Can be cast again after 2.5 seconds. Second Cast: Dashes in target direction, dealing 85 magic damage, increased by up to 300% based on targets' missing Health. Deals max damage to targets below 35% health. Cooldown: 87.8 / 68.3 / 48.8 Energy: 0

Skill Order


1	3	2	5
4	8	7	9
6	14	11	13
10	15	12

Skill Combo

1. Shuriken Flip > Five Point Strike > Twilight Shroud.

2. Five Point Strike > Twilight Shroud > Shuriken Flip.

3. Perfect Execution > Shuriken Flip > Five Point Strike > Twilight Shroud > Re-cast Perfect Execution.

Akali Matchups and Partner

Enemy Matchups

Good Against
Orianna	Akali have great mobility and she can outclass Orianna at level 5, using her Perfect Execution, Shuriken Flip, Five Point Strike, and Twilight Shroud.
Twisted Fate	Twisted Fate is vulnerable when his Pick a card is on cooldown, so use the advantage of Five Point Strike, and Shuriken Flip to harass him.
Yasuo	Akali is a good pick to play against Yasuo, since both of the are meele champion. Akali has advantage over him she can punish Yasuo by using her Five Point Strike in the early game and Shuriken Flip to dodge Yasuo Steel Tempest.
Ziggs	Fighting against Ziggs is not gonna be easy since he can spam harass you with his Bouncing Bomb but Akali has ability to dodge his Bouncing Bomb by using her Shuriken Flip and abilities to get close to him like Twilight Shroud and Perfect Execution.

Hard Counters
Ahri	Fighting against Ahri is not easy since she can counter using her Charm when Akali use her Shuriken Flip or Perfect Execution.
Fizz	Fizz has very high magic damage output, especially if he connect all the combos on you. Fizz can use Playful / Trickster to dodge Akali Shuriken Flip and blink close to her.
Annie	Picking Annie against Akali is a good pick since Annie can counter Akali with her stun this advantage allow her to one shot her enemy with her Summon: Tibbers, Incinerate, and Disintegrate.
Zed	Zed is a great champion to counter Akali, He can punish Akali by using ability like Living Shadow, Razor Shuriken, and Shadow Slash, whenever she try to farm.