Akali vs Irelia in Mid lane is a lane that swings with levels on patch 26.14. The one thing to respect: her W is heavy damage reduction — dump your combo into it and you get statchecked to death. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · MIDAKALIthe Rogue Assassin

⇄ ChangeENEMY · MIDIRELIAthe Blade Dancer

VS

Swings with levelsPre-6 MediumPost-6 EasyTake Ignite

How to play it

✓ DO

Don't combo into W

Don't combo into her W — it's a ton of damage reduction, so make sure you proc your Electrocute outside of it.

Level 6 is your timer

Fight her when no ally minions are nearby to make her much more linear — level 6 onward is really your timer and you can kill her.

Survive level 1

Level 1 she's a lot stronger — she'll Q through melee minions then Q onto you for her passive, so Q-auto-Q back or start W to not lose the lane.

✕ DON'T

⛔

Never sit and trade autos with her — she out-statchecks you and will auto you to death, so kite her instead.

Runes

DOMINATION

RESOLVEuniversal page

SHARDS

No rune change for this matchup — run the universal page, our every-game default.

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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16.14 Emerald+ - 52% WR - 1.5k games

Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
		E							E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→E→W

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