Akali
Computed from 314,491 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 48.8% | 3.3% |
| Mid | 48.6% | 9.4% |
Akali is banned in about 17.2% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Akali's Mid win rate is 1.4 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Akali is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Mid — its numbers in Top (3.3% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Akali's Mid Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21, Akali's most common Mid setup runs Flash and Ignite with Electrocute, maxes Q first, and builds Hextech Gunblade, Shadowflame, and Mejai's Soulstealer — 49.1% win rate over 66,219 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite
49.3%52,451 games - Runes
Electrocute + Resolve
50.8%6,627 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 49.2%65,263 games
- Starter
Doran's Shield + Health Potion
49.2%25,722 games - Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes
50.2%53,343 games - First three items
Hextech Gunblade → Shadowflame → Mejai's Soulstealer
79.5%1,579 games
Akali's Mid Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 47.9% | 11.3% | 25,783 | 0.28σ | No |
| Bronze | 47.7% | 10.6% | 30,118 | 0.37σ | No |
| Silver | 48.2% | 9.8% | 35,248 | 0.31σ | No |
| Gold | 49.0% | 9.2% | 38,157 | 0.18σ | No |
| Platinum | 49.3% | 8.7% | 38,590 | 0.13σ | No |
| Emerald | 49.3% | 8.2% | 28,867 | 0.16σ | No |
| Diamond | 48.5% | 7.7% | 24,717 | 0.34σ | No |
| Master | 48.6% | 7.4% | 11,203 | 0.30σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 50.5% | 8.8% | 830 | 0.07σ | No |
Akali's Mid win rate ranges from 47.7% at Bronze to 50.5% at Grandmaster across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 2.8-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.07σ at Grandmaster and 0.37σ at Bronze, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- No strong lean
- Threats
- Burst and stealth
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Akali in Mid?
Champions That Counter Akali
| Champion | Win Rate vs Akali | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Fiddlesticks |
58.8% | 1.84σ |
Singed |
58.2% | 1.72σ |
Heimerdinger |
58.1% | 1.69σ |
Shen |
58.0% | 1.68σ |
Quinn |
57.5% | 1.57σ |
Champions Akali Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Akali | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Jhin |
40.9% | 1.90σ |
Lee Sin |
43.1% | 1.44σ |
Ezreal |
44.5% | 1.15σ |
Nocturne |
44.9% | 1.07σ |
Evelynn |
45.2% | 1.00σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Akali: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 1-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.
Our Read on Akali
Reading the Numbers
Akali sits in both top and middle lane, which means any single figure for her is an average over two quite different matchups. She is an assassin who runs on energy instead of mana, and her smoke bomb, Twilight Shroud, restores energy as she throws it, so her rhythm is bursts of trading followed by a retreat rather than a long sustained brawl. The kit asks a lot mechanically, with a backward dash, a recast, a dash-in ultimate and its own recast all needing to be sequenced under pressure. Expect her results to separate comfortable players from everyone else more sharply than her raw power would suggest.
When a Teammate Locks Akali
Hand an Akali a target to hunt and she is at her best. Shuriken Flip dashes her backward while throwing a shuriken, and if the throw marks an enemy, a second press carries her onto that mark. Perfect Execution gives her a dash onto a champion and a second dash whose damage climbs as the victim's health falls, so she finishes people off better than she opens fights. Do not expect her to start your engage. Give her space to find angles on an exposed carry, share vision around the fight, and remember that stepping into her own smoke lets her slip out if things go wrong.
When the Enemy Has Akali
Watch the ground for smoke. While Akali stands in a Twilight Shroud she is invisible until she attacks or casts, and the shroud itself expands toward nearby enemy champions, so a patch of smoke near your backline usually means she is about to reposition or strike. Her damage comes from chaining dashes, which means the moment after she commits is the moment to answer: stay beside teammates, peel for whoever she lands on, and punish the flip. Her passive ring also grants speed when she moves away from it, so chasing an Akali who has already left your side tends to waste more than it wins.
Last reviewed 14 October 2026