Akali vs Zed

⇄ ChangeYOU · MID

⇄ ChangeENEMY · MID

VS

Skill matchupPre-6 MediumPost-6 MediumTake Ignite

How to play it

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Never eat a raw Q

Only take his Q through minions where it's weakened: a clean shuriken is his main source of poke.

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Abuse his W cooldown

His W cooldown is very long early: trade into that window, since without a shadow down he can't dash away.

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E him after his ult

E him as he reappears from his ult, but only if he has no shadow already down: otherwise he insta-W's out and you can't trade back.

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Never trade ults at the same time: his is always off cooldown first, so you overtrade in the 10-20s window while yours is still down.

Runes

DOMINATION

RESOLVE

SHARDS

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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16.14 Emerald+ - 52% WR - 2.5k 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

Akali vs Zed in Mid lane is a skill matchup on patch 26.17. The one thing to respect: only take his Q through minions, a raw shuriken is his main poke and chip.

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