Akali

Middle

Another Unworthy Opponent

Maximum assassination kill threat and snowballing damage.

Domination

Burst damage and target access

Electrocute

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 2s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Sudden Impact

Gain a burst of Lethality and Magic Penetration after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or on leaving stealth.
Eyeball Collection

Collect eyeballs for champion and ward takedowns. Gain permanent AD or AP, Adaptive for each eyeball plus bonus upon collection completion.
Ultimate Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown on your Ultimate.

Resolve

Durability and crowd control

Bone Plating

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive deal less damage.
Unflinching

Increase your Tenacity and Slow Resistance for each summoner spell on cooldown. Immediately after casting a Summoner Spell, gain a larger burst of Tenacity and Slow Resistance for a moderate duration.

Offense

+5 AD or 9 AP
Flex

+5 AD or 9 AP
Defense

+6 Armor or 8 MR (match-up)

WhyElectrocute

Akali loves burst damage and she can quite easily proc Electrocute with a [Q]->Auto->[E].

WhySudden Impact

Akali can make use of both the Magic Penetration and Lethality of Sudden Impact, while nearly always having the proc up with [W] and [R] casts.

WhyEyeball Collection

Akali loves to kill and snowball. Eyeball Collect is perfect for bloody lanes/games where you're looking to run away with a lead.

WhyUltimate Hunter

Akali's new [R] has insane kill potential thanks to its high damage, but that comes at the cost of a long cooldown. Ultimate Hunter helps give you more opportunities to kill and carry any game.

WhyBone Plating

Bone Plating's early game damage mitigation help you through the early laning phase so that when you hit 6 you're not too far behind and can find kill pressure.

WhyUnflinching

The hardest counter to Akali is CCing her while she is out of [W] invisibility. Unflinching helps patch up some of that weakness.