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League of Legends (LoL) Question: How To Akali?

Posted in Champions | Tags: Akali Heimerdinger 7,750

How To Akali?

Asked by Slowbob on March 20, 2018

I don't know how to counter Heimerdinger as Akali. I usually play safe under turret. But then they roam bot and feed themselves...

I don't know how not to tilt/how to play Akali without inting...

I need help on how to play Akali better... Any advice!?!??!

Answers (4)

(140) |

First of, what are your starting items when you lane against ?
Second, if you aren't very confidend in your ability to lane against him it might be worth taking instead of just because of the amount of pressure this gives to you around the map.
If you get pocked out, back to lane without giving him a kill or losing much lane pressure.
If he roams and you have saved , you can instantly go to the same lane as him or to the opposite lane to make a play there.
The reason roams a lot is because he can just instantly shove every wave.
Another option for you might be to take to instantly clear the canon minions. That will take a lot of his pushing power away.
I like to go when I play against because it helps against his stuns + his damage.
One last thing I you could do when he puts up a turret: wait until the biggest part of the damage from the turret is gone and then auto, q, auto it to instantly clear it.
The most important part is to not play scared of him. You are and need to snowball early game.

In the link below is my guide to Akali, you can look in there for some ideas.

https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/akali-season-8-dominating-top-and-mid-in-progress-520629

Also, if you really want to learn about I suggest you subscribe to Professor Akali on Youtube. He is a very good player and you can learn a lot from him.

Don't play too safe, even if it is vs .

I hope this will help you with your problems,

Kaji!

(1) |

Wow, this will be helpfull for me as well! I am trying to learn and there's some really good advice in here! So good question and nice advice!

(140) |

Glad I could help! If you have more questions feel free to ask anytime!

(8) |

Thanks for such a lengthy reply, and with links to more help... wow :D I should probably mention that I've got mastery level 4 on but I still suck with her (I think I've tilted my self to the point of no return with Akali...)

(140) |

Don't worry, I am at mastery level 7 on and I still feed really hard some games. You can't snowball every game.
Another option that I didn't think of before is that you can just ask your toplaner to switch lanes with you.
But as I said, don't get too scared of . He is annoying, but nothing a good can't overcome! :D

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(8) |

Thanks for the help and confidence :D

(16) |

Akali is due for a rework soon, right after Aatrox who is after Irelia so maybe don't get too much into playing her now. Chances are she will be very different soon. Sorry, I know this doesn't help you, I just wanted to put it out there.

(8) |

Why is Aatrox getting a rework?! He got buffed back into play-ability (hes playable now)... Where did you find this information?! HMMMMMM

(16) |

Aatrox has been confirmed for a rework for a long time now, after Irelia fully releases on all servers, it's his turn. It'll only be a gameplay update, nothing like the full visual and gameplay updates that Irelia went through and Akali probably will. Also, I don't like your tone very much, if you don't believe me, you can just google "lol champion reworks" and see for yourself.

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(8) |

It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I am questioning the source of your information... (the Hmmmmm was part of a meme). Sorry about the tone

(16) |

In any case, if you search google, it should redirect you to Riot's site where you can see all the currently planned reworks. Irelia is still there for some reason, my guess is she hasn't been released in every server, then you will see Aatrox and right after that, Akali. Sadly, I am an old Aatrox main and I know he's playable again, but I won't bother play him again since it's very likely he won't be the same after the rework. Also, to answer your question why he's getting reworked gameplay-wise. I recall Riot stating that they want to rework him because he's not exactly realizing their vision for him and I remember the statement saying something like "they will rework him from the ground up" which if it is to be taken seriously, leads me to believe he won't the same as he is now.

(16) |

Here, I decided to add the url to save you the time

(24) |

one word answer = "Roam". Heimer puts his little turrets and farms sitting in one place. If you can't farm then roam to enemy jungle, ward at krugs early on etc... Heimer can't follow up quickly. That's where you get kills and leads.

(8) |

True

(24) |

One option you have is take against heimer. Once you reach your item spike and know you can kill him or at least burst him down considerably, you can go in. The good thing about akali is you can stealth from the mini turrets (i'm not sure of that?) and jump to heimer in and out force him back.

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(140) |

can indeed stealth for his turrets with her because it grants true invisibility. If you do want to go in on then there are a few things you want to keep in mind:

Always save an ult stack! Don't use everything on the all-in.
Make sure there are some minions away from him you can jump back to with your Shadow Dance.
Wait with your engage until after he throws out his CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade so he has no stun. Then you should be good to go.

(8) |

What I've tried doing is baiting out his stun and dogging it with Akali's W (stealth jump out of it) and then engage him, but than his turrets scare me off again ;__;

(140) |

You should save your for when you are near him.
You can also dodge his stun by standing at the right side (or left side) of the lane, wait until he uses it, and then use on a minion to the other side of the lane to dodge it.
Then you have 2 stacks left, you can use 1 to go in on and use your combo on him. Now because you still have your available you can stealth from his turrets.
If you see that you can't kill him you can still use your last remaining dash to get out.
If you can kill him and he flashes away, you can use your remaining dash to get on him and finish the job.

(8) |

Thats great advice, THanks :D

NOw how do I take this question down because I think I've gotten all the advice I need...

(14) |

For Ban Phase of champ select, if you are going to play , ban . She is your #1 counter and will destroy you in any given circumstance. Her early game isnt the strongest, so you need to play passive until you hit lvl 6. Once you hit 6, you can roam to bot lane, and maybe pick up a kill or 2, trying to get yourself ahead of your enemy. Once you get gunblade (rush ), you will hit your first and most important power spike. Try to capitalize off of it as much as possible, getting yourself ahead for late game, due to the fact that akali gets her kills stolen a lot when you hit the ~30 minute mark.

Hope this helps,

~moon

(140) |

I think he mainly has trouble laning vs , which is no surprise as many people do vs. the ****er. But IMO it's not really that hard of a matchup if you just play enough games with and you learn all her combo's. :)

(8) |

Lol as I said in my last reply, I have a decent amount of experience with Akali, my problem is that Heimer starts to build a bunch of turrets in lane, then when I try to get cs, his damn turrets do like... 25% of my hp. Then I get to afraid to engage him.

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