Akali Top, patch 16.11. Below you'll find Akali's build, runes, toughest counters, strongest duos, and win conditions, every number measured from current-patch Emerald+ ranked games.
Akali is an AP assassin in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 51.1% win rate, 2.8% pick rate, 33,048 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Akali spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Akali wins: using Akali's mobility to catch isolated targets, and roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map. The kit grades 9/10 mobility, 8/10 roaming. Play around where Akali is thin, siege and disengage (2/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Hextech Gunblade, Shadowflame, Zhonya's Hourglass, which holds a 52.7% win rate across 3,619 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.
The matchup to respect is Kled, where Akali sits at just 41.3%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (59.7%), and on the team side, Akali gains the most from a Dr. Mundo (+6.7% pair win rate).
Akali's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Champions that beat Akali Top the most this patch, anywhere on the enemy team. Top ban targets.
Who Akali Top wants on the team: partners with the biggest positive swing on Akali's win rate this patch.
Akali is also played in this other role this patch.
Drafting a whole team? The Team Builder coaches all 10 picks at once. Want Akali's current standing? Open the Tier List.