r/akalimains

Just in general can someone explain like bread and butter combos? I mainly play adc and support, but have been trying to branch out to assassins.

After a lot of work (and a lot of inting in norms) I can now pilot Evelynn or Katarina and it kind of looks like I know what I’m doing.

For Katarina, someone told me to use E to get ontop of the enemy, and then QW for burst and E reset to get back out. I’d previously been throwing a dagger with Q and trying to blink to the dagger, hoping the enemy would walk onto the dagger for me.

For Evelynn, someone told me if I’m relying on my charm to kill a squishy in mid to late game, I’m doing something wrong and should be able to one shot an adc without putting W on cooldown.

Both of those things were super helpful to hear. I don’t know what I’m doing right or wrong on Akali, but I feel like I’m brand new to the game again when I try to play her. Is there anything new Akalis often get completely wrong?

YOU CAN CHOOSE WERE YOUR SMOKE IS PLACED AND IT'S IMPORTANT

IT'S VERY FUCKING IMPORTANT.

If you place your smoke ahead of you while you are kiting someone on the toplane your smoke is useless, if you place it behind you it's the most broken bullshit ever.

If you are escaping and you place a smoke that allows you to choose the direction you are escaping, you are probably living, if you place a smoke that only gives you one exit, you are making your escape 10x harder

If you place a smoke that covers most of the teamfight, enemy adc can't play, if you place a shitty smoke that buys no space for your team, that's a wasted 20 second cd, and the difference between one and the other can be literally just the position your cursor is at when you are pressing your smoke

please, aim your smoke between using it and it legit becomes top 3 strongest base abilities in the game not even close

Title. This lane used to be relatively free for the most part. Now with DFT back? Cancer-tier unplayable.

And I'm not talking about the laning phase. As soon as this asshole gets Liandries or Blackfire Torch, he becomes this unstoppable force that will fuck all your teammates in the ass and take all your towers.

Seriously considering quitting for a patch or two until they figure that shitty rune out. It's insufferable on champs that can abuse it. I think shit like Zed and Naafiri might be keeping him in check winrate wise at the moment. But Akali vs Malz hasn't felt this terrible in forever lmao.

For me it would be a perfectly timed e 2 and outplay potential

Idk what else write so the post is not “low effort”

Hi all,
I mainly play riven top but whenever I get autofilled mid lane I usually try to play riven but always have trouble against mages. I was wondering if akali is super good into mages because of all her dashes and has alot of health regen. I heard fizz is good but i don’t wanna be a fizz player. Is she worth picking up for whenever I’m against mages or is there just better options?