HOW TO PLAY AKALI - FULL INDEPTH GUIDE - RANK 1 CHALLENGER MID 

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​@petr9719 He is a nerd can't imagine him getting a decent wife

Just started the ákali grind thank god all I saw was that dude.

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getting filled mid while queueing support and jungle is harder than winning the lottery lol

Good tip!

Yeah very good point, knew I'd forget some things :/

That's pretty much how you close out games, if you win teamfights you secure dragons and barons which should win you the game

Thank you man! A mechanics guide is interesting, hadn't even thought about it honestly.

@@ShokLeague if u ever do make one, i cant wait to see it

I still prefer Conq/Resolve overall but I think electro is fine too

@@ShokLeague ok ty ❤

It's decent, if they have 5 squishy champs you can probably run it. I do think Conq is better though

I agree if they build no MR better items are definitely better, most of the time though people have MR by the point you're thinking about buying Void they usually have MR, but if they don't then yea just skip it

Haha sorry about that

Honestly probably not, I haven't played Katarina since like season 5 and there are probably good Katarina guides out there already since there are a lot of OTPs. That being said I might do a vod review on one? But I don't think I'll do a full guide but who knows. Sorry about that.

@@ShokLeague No problem man. Really love the content!

Yeah you can rush morello vs some champs mid too (like Sylas)

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Yeah I'll probably talk about her if I do a mid lane tier list video, I think she's pretty good in solo queue though.

Yeah it's good, the main reason why it's harder to take is without resolve you'll have a hard time in lane, or you give up conditioning overgrowth which makes teamfighting a lot easier when Akali doesn't really need more damage. If you go electrocute tree though you can definitely take it if you don't need taste of blood.

I actually don't know all the top matchups, I'd recommend looking up a matchup sheet from a top laner as they're likely to have much better insight.

True I actually forgot about the nerf, probably just pick it up if you're vs more than one AD champ/ you plan on building Zhonya anyway.

Yeah it's definitely pretty annoying, I'd stack tenacity (legend: tenacity, mercs, unflinching) which should make teamfighting a lot easier. In the lane there really isn't that much you can do other than trade farm with her. Unfortunately it is just a pretty annoying counter matchup.

Hey there EUW Master Akali otp here, if you struggle in that matchup you should try elktro with 2nd tree 2nd wind and unflinching. you outrade her when you initiate with your e-e2 q combo even if she plays aftershock. Hold your r2 in case that she'll r herself to dodge it. Mercs are quite useful and in teamfight you have to play around your shroud since her r is point and click.

It's still a good champion yeah, not OP but not weak either

Yone and Viktor are fine, maybe add a very simple champ as well like Ahri/Vex.

Yeah definitely gonna do Lucian in the future!

Yeah Triumph definitely can save your life but the amount of energy restored from PoM is pretty important. I think in general Akali has much more trouble with energy management than surviving and I think every pro player I have seen takes PoM, but it's not like Triumph is bad just not as good imo.

@@ShokLeague that makes sense, I think I just "limit test" a bit too much lmao, thank you so much for getting back to me!

Definitely more value past the early game, but the problem is in high level play against good players Akali falls too far behind without resolve. If you know that you aren't going to get punished in lane at all you could be greedy, but there's a reason why resolve secondary is taken 99% of the time. edit: Also I forgot to mention that if you do want scaling, overgrowth conditioning is probably the way to go anyway.

Protobelt > Shadowflame/Zhonya > Rabadon/Void > Rabadon/Void most of the time. Fleet or conq as the runes (fleet vs ranged, conq vs melee mostly)

Think it's outperformed by the AP builds

Honestly I'd say just try it, like I said in the video I do think Conq is quite a bit better and the most important thing for maximizing your use out of it is getting those Q autos in to get it stacked and keep it stacked. It gives you a lot more staying power in fights beyond your initial burst as well. It is also important (as always) to hit your E because that's gonna give some extra stacks too.

Akali OTP here, and from what I understood from Chovy and Showmaker Vods, you go electrocute in like 5% of your games or something like that (1/20-1/15 max) and it’s because you can’t go electrocute if there’s even one tanky, beefy champion in the enemy team. You can go electrocute if there’s a range squishy champion top, and an assassin jungle for instance (the supp doesn’t matter he will be to down on levels). And it’s also quit disturbing since Akali electrocute is like a new champ, you don’t trade whenever you hit a Q or you have your shroud up, you only go all in when you have electrocute, escape safely with shroud, he might be half, and go again when you see an opportunity (even under tower) and finish him (with ignite most of the time). That’s how you go through laning phase. The rest of the time don’t take any poke.

Nah it's fair enough. That can definitely happen. Honestly I would try avoid playing matchups like that, while you can blind pick Akali I think she's much better to use as a counterpick to weak ranged champions or melee champions so that hopefully you don't end up in that situation. I think relying on your jungler to gank/break a freeze is not gonna work in soloq most of the time so if I have to play a matchup like Akali vs Lucian in soloq I'd be pretty unhappy. You can take TP in these matchups which helps a bit, otherwise you might just have to accept that you are going to lose some CS as is the nature of Akali early game. Against the champions you mentioned specifically, Syndra is actually quite a good matchup for Akali, you can outsustain her with second wind + dorans shield and fleet if you feel like you need it. Mainly you just have to dodge a lot of skillshots but at least at a high level it's quite good. Irelia can be hard bit if you use your E and W well it can be sorta hard for her to trade, if you use E to react to her E and W to kinda disengage if she ever does manage to get on you. Akshan is just quite difficult overall, another matchup I would try avoid if possible.

@@ShokLeague thanks a lot for the answer

I'm definitely open to it in the future but at the moment I'm pretty busy, I have done coaching previously though and quite enjoyed it!

@@ShokLeague understandable ! In any case, I’ll be studying your content. Very much appreciate you taking time to make these guides.

They made it cost 300g so you can't really start it anymore.

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Idk I think it's not too hard mechanically, but if you haven't played assassins before learning how to lane and teamfight on her is difficult imo.

Sure if you have specific questions

Nah I should've shown a better example where I traveled further, if you try it in practice tool you'll still travel to the end.

@@ShokLeague thanks :)

Not really, you can normally get enough tenacity from runes/mercs and you kinda want TP for lane or ignite for skirmishes

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ye gangplank is good vs akali but no one plays it mid

@@ShokLeague do you only play akali mid?

@@Punisher41230 yeah, I queue ad second

Glad you think I'm so good I make pro players look like silvers. Thanks for the kind words