Akali vs Riven

⇄ ChangeYOU · MID

⇄ ChangeENEMY · MID

VS

Swings with levelsPre-6 MediumPost-6 HardTake Ignite

How to play it

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Don't combo her E

Win on spacing: don't combo into her E; track her Q and E cooldowns and oneshot her before she oneshots you.

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Punish her cooldowns

You can 1v1 her until roughly two items: all-in when her Q and E are down and burst her first.

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Respect ult timers

Her R comes back up far faster than yours: don't fight while your R is down, and value ignite more the longer the game runs.

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Never let her get a clean proxy: she skips laning phase and her scaling snowballs out of control.

Runes

DOMINATION

RESOLVE

SHARDS

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

→

→

16.14 Emerald+ - 50% WR - 1.0k 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

Akali vs Riven in Mid lane is a lane that swings with levels on patch 26.17. The one thing to respect: her E engage, don't combo into it; beat her on spacing by tracking her Q and E cooldowns.

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