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Where players rank Akali on the community tier list. One vote per account.
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Classic loadouts
Builds for Akali
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Abilities
P
Twin Disciplines
Description not yet transcribed - never back-filled from modern League.
Q
Mark of the Assassin
Akali throws her kama at a target enemy to deal 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds. Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will consume the mark to cause 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 magic damage and restore 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 Energy. (+40% AP)
45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145+40% AP
W
Twilight Shroud
Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 Armor and 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 Magic Resist and becomes Invisible. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her. Enemies inside the smoke are Slowed by 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30%.
E
Crescent Slash
Akali flourishes her kamas, slicing nearby enemies for 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 physical damage. (+60% AD, +30% AP)
30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130+60% AD+30% AP
R
Shadow Dance
Ultimate
Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100 / 175 / 250 magic damage. Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 25 / 20 / 15 seconds up to 3 total. (+50% AP)
100 / 175 / 250+50% AP
How Akali plays
Editorial Reading of the kit above, not a sourced claim - the numbers inside it were checked against the client before publishing.
Akali plays a two-hit game: Mark of the Assassin pokes and tags a target, and a follow-up melee attack detonates the mark for the same damage again while paying back some of her Energy, so a clean poke rarely costs her anything. Twilight Shroud is her whole identity in one spell, an 8-second smoke cloud that turns her invisible and tougher while she's inside it and slows anyone who wanders in, and only attacking or casting gives her away, so she can duel from inside it or vanish out of a losing fight entirely. Crescent Slash rounds out the burst against everyone nearby and scales off both her attack damage and ability power, which is why she never has to commit to just one. Shadow Dance is what makes the burst repeatable, a short blink-strike that banks a free reuse on a kill, an assist, or just by waiting, so a good all-in chains straight into the next one. Twin Disciplines rewards exactly that build path, adding bonus damage from whichever offensive stat she's ahead on. She runs on Energy rather than Mana, so nothing about her aggression is capped by a bar running dry, only by how many marks she can actually land.
Counters & matchups
Strong against
Weak against
Plays well with
Twin Disciplines pays in both currencies, and Mark of the Assassin wins extended mid trades - the counterplay is a point-click Silence, stacked Magic Resist, or vision dropped straight into Twilight Shroud.
"In lane" means both champions are played in the same role in Classic; "across the map" represents cross-lane dynamics (e.g. jungler ganks, roaming supports). All matchups evaluated strictly within the 63 Classic launch champions.
What Akali's kit scales with
Read from Akali's ability text.
Resource
EnergyMana runes and items do nothing for this champion
Range
Melee125 units
Ability ratios
Q
Mark of the Assassin
E
Crescent Slash
R
Shadow Dance
Skins · 22
Catalog and art read directly from the client files (build 362c0c748f7a) - exactly the skins the client lists for Akali, including the Classic throwback skins with their era models. © Riot Games.
Modern vs Classic · 13 tracked changes
Akali
Base Health
600
530
Health per level
119
85
Base Attack Damage
62
56.2
Base Armor
23
20
Armor per level
4.7
3.5
Base Magic Resist
37
31.25
Move Speed
345
350
Base Attack Speed
0.625
0.694
Attack Speed per level
3.2%
3.1%
Passive name
Assassin's Mark
Twin Disciplines
Q name
Five Point Strike
Mark of the Assassin
E name
Shuriken Flip
Crescent Slash
R name
Perfect Execution
Shadow Dance
Classic: the Classic client's files · Today: patch 16.14.1.