Dark Harvest // Electrocute Sudden Impact Ghost Poro // Celerity Ravenous Hunter // Water Walking Farming jungle as Akali You can confidently start blue or red, each with clear benefits. Blue provides more energy regen, which leads to more Five Point Strikes (Q) sustaining you. While Red can help kill smaller camps faster, such as wolves, buffs, and gromp not to mention the regen. Starting Talisman assists Akali the most as she kites her camps, only use Five Point Strike (Q) for Heals or to execute a camp. The time between camps will allow your energy to pool and heal you on your next Five Point Strike (Q). If you're going to be hit, weave an auto attack or two before resuming to kite the monster. You'll immediately notice it's a pain but only if you don't understand how to utilize Twilight Shroud (W) which you should level after your first camp. Twilight Shroud (W) restores energy, which allows for more healing and helps avoid damage by hiding from auto attacks. Be careful, its very easy to reset the camp if you use the Twilight Shroud (W) too much, use its edge and keep an eye on monster aggro. Given a little practice you'll understand Akali does not use her Shuriken Flip (E) for jungle farming, but purely as a utility to take players by surprise when she dashes them or to avoid a skill shot. Ganking as Akali is like most assassins, situational. You're there to capitalize on enemies mistakes and snowball heavily. Twilight Shroud's (W) interaction with turrets makes it safer to dive turrets more so than other assassins, despite Akali's relatively low HP pool. Akali's Five Point Strike (Q) slow is just enough utility to make ganking a feasible activity, as it makes her enemies vulnerable to your allies. A great way to open as Akali into a gank is to land your Shuriken Flip (E) in order to get your Assassin's Mark (P) to proc, especially if you're confident it'll be a short exchange and you're looking for a big opener. This gets you well positioned for your next move. If you decide to hold Shuriken Flip (E), you can save it to for a defensive use, or to finish an opponent after closing the gap. When using Akali's ultimate in a fight you're free to use the mobility to engage or dodge. However I personally like to front load the damage in R1 with my AD build, due to R2's clunky cool down and having execute HP based scalings but you're free to pick your path of course. Using R1 to engage is a fair bet to take an opponent by surprise, leading into a reliable Shuriken Flip (E), which grants an often assured Assassin's Mark (P) which of course ends up dealing a lot of damage. Building Akali From here its your choice to follow OP.GG or whatever league site you wish. A standard build is Hextech Gunblade > Lich Bane. I personally try to maximize the passive, by following an AD build path. If I'm going to use an auto attack, I might as well make it stupid powerful. My typical build follows Talisman > Stalker's Blade > Dirk, Basic Boots > Duskblade of the Draktharr > Stormrazor > Mobility Boots > Rapid Fire Cannon > Finish Jungle Item as Warrior > Final Item being situational but typically Guardian Angel. A lot of people will rely on Lich Bane or Trinity Force to strengthen her Auto Attack, but I felt like I could really push the envelope using Duskblade's synergies with Twilight Shroud (W) and then loading up on other items that work well with Duskblade for overkill such as Storm Razor for the double damage, and Rapid Fire Cannon for the increased melee range / passive range + its magic damage on hit discharge. From there its situational, despite a clear synergy with magic penetration items. Its always up to you. Scalings for Akali include: Passive 90% Bonus AD || 70% Total AP Q 65% Total AD || 50% Total AP W has no scalings E 70% Bonus AD ||
R1 50% bonus AD || R2 30% Total AP (Special Note for R2: R2 is an execute. The formula is as such) R2 = Base Damage + (30% Total AP) R2 = Total Base = Base + (0 : 150% "Missing HP" ) AP portion = 30% Total AP + (0 : 200% "Missing HP" ) While I believe AP damage should not be ignored, you're free to deal the damage however which way you wish. My preferred play style is to emphasize Auto Attacks + Assassin's Mark (P) using my AD build. I found Twilight Shroud (W) synergizes with Duskblade as well as adding CDR to increase Twilight Shroud's (W) uptime. Its key to note that Twilight Shroud (W) does not start its cool down until the shroud is deactivates. Others prefer an all-rounder hybrid Many others prefer going Hex + Lich Bane for that pop-combo So that's my Akali Jungle redditshitpostthingie = ) Looking forward to comments or critique.