Akali
Patches 16.20 to 16.22 · KR- Pick
- 9.3%picked in 1,662 of 17,861 games
- Ban
- 20.5%3,468 bans over 16,901 games, against 17.1% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,564 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 235,635 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.DraftLength
- How to play itElectrocute, then Hextech Gunblade, Shadowflame, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compTakes its kills in duels first: more duels than 89% of mid laners.DuelistSplit-push
- With / againstBetter than expected against Nocturne in amateur play: +17.8 pts over 44 games, range above zero.+17.8 pt44 games
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 3.3%
- SoloQ
- 3.6%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 20.2%
- SoloQ
- 17.1%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.5 min
- SoloQ
- 26.2 min
How to play it?
Electrocute, then Hextech Gunblade, Shadowflame, and Zhonya's Hourglass: the most played build in soloQ.
Hextech Gunblade
Shadowflame
Zhonya's Hourglass
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Takes its kills in duels first: more duels than 89% of mid laners.
- Takes its kills in duelstop12%28% · mid laners: 23%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other mid laners
What marks it
- Duelist
- Split-push
Like other mid laners
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Map pressure
- Absorbs damage
- Team damage
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Carries its own kills
- Little CC
- No poke
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 68 in lane, 69 in mid game and 52 in late game, out of 100 mid laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 64% of mid laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among mid laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 68 of 100 among mid laners564 · median 528
- Damage in mid game · rank 69 of 100 among mid laners955 · median 899
- Damage in late game · rank 52 of 100 among mid laners1,184 · median 1,179
- Gold at 15 min · rank 60 of 100 among mid laners+119 · median +25
- Gold at 20 min · rank 64 of 100 among mid laners+243 · median +71
- Map pressure · rank 73 of 100 among mid laners3.9 · median 3.2
- Absorbs damage · rank 57 of 100 among mid laners561 · median 489
- Plays teamfights · rank 23 of 100 among mid laners53% · median 55%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 89 of 100 among mid laners28% · median 23%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 15 of 100 among mid lanersrank 15 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 9 of 100 among mid laners0.1 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 72 of 100 among mid laners24% · median 21%
With whom, against whom?
Better than expected against Nocturne in amateur play: +17.8 pts over 44 games, range above zero.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
With
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- Ambessa58 games51.7%gap +2.1 ptsSoloQ: 51.3% · 825 g
- K'Sante58 games55.2%gap +2.9 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,102 g
- Yone56 games53.6%gap +4.5 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 1,556 g
- Renekton53 games56.6%gap +7.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 737 g
- Malphite50 games52.0%gap +4.7 ptsSoloQ: 45.0% · 700 g
- Mordekaiser47 games40.4%gap -8.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 289 g
- Aatrox46 games39.1%gap -9.1 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 714 g
- Sion44 games59.1%gap +9.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 443 g
- Nasus42 games42.9%gap -3.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 393 g
- Ornn42 games31.0%gap -16.0 ptsSoloQ: 46.4% · 181 g
- Gnar40 games55.0%gap +4.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.0% · 500 g
- Camille38 games47.4%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.1% · 562 g
- Dr. Mundo37 games45.9%gap -5.8 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 367 g
- Zaahen29 games—SoloQ: 46.4% · 358 g
- Gwen28 games—SoloQ: 52.9% · 210 g
- Jax28 games—SoloQ: 53.3% · 803 g
- Irelia21 games—SoloQ: 51.4% · 922 g
- Jayce20 games—SoloQ: 49.4% · 1,363 g
- Fiora12 games—SoloQ: 50.4% · 694 g
- Gangplank11 games—SoloQ: 47.5% · 856 g
- Darius9 games—SoloQ: 48.5% · 464 g
- Pantheon9 games—SoloQ: 49.1% · 707 g
- Jayce6 games—SoloQ: 49.4% · 1,363 g
- Malphite6 games—SoloQ: 45.0% · 700 g
- Darius5 games—SoloQ: 48.5% · 464 g
- Lee Sin134 games52.2%gap +1.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 2,602 g
- Wukong89 games39.3%gap -5.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.0% · 511 g
- Sylas89 games47.2%gap -1.6 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 1,438 g
- Jarvan IV83 games54.2%gap +2.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 852 g
- Vi77 games57.1%gap +8.1 ptsSoloQ: 48.6% · 718 g
- Xin Zhao51 games47.1%gap -1.4 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 481 g
- Nocturne44 games70.5%gap +17.8 ptsSoloQ: 55.4% · 296 g
- Lillia43 games41.9%gap -5.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 573 g
- Qiyana38 games39.5%gap -11.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.8% · 1,290 g
- Sejuani36 games61.1%gap +12.1 ptsSoloQ: 53.9% · 152 g
- Graves29 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 925 g
- Nidalee29 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 1,322 g
- Viego29 games—SoloQ: 51.3% · 819 g
- Jayce28 games—SoloQ: 56.2% · 498 g
- Naafiri27 games—SoloQ: 52.8% · 544 g
- Kha'Zix20 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 709 g
- Elise14 games—SoloQ: 45.1% · 608 g
- Hecarim11 games—SoloQ: 44.9% · 801 g
- Master Yi10 games—SoloQ: 47.6% · 546 g
- Naafiri10 games—SoloQ: 52.8% · 544 g
- Viktor128 games55.5%gap +6.5 ptsSoloQ: 54.7% · 1,500 g
- Yone83 games43.4%gap -2.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.7% · 1,800 g
- Orianna62 games59.7%gap +6.7 ptsSoloQ: 47.5% · 680 g
- Ahri61 games44.3%gap -2.3 ptsSoloQ: 43.5% · 582 g
- Galio59 games49.2%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 1,162 g
- Sylas58 games51.7%gap +0.1 ptsSoloQ: 54.0% · 1,512 g
- Locke56 games50.0%gap -1.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 1,830 g
- Lissandra53 games45.3%gap -5.6 ptsSoloQ: 38.6% · 753 g
- Syndra52 games51.9%gap +3.1 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 1,046 g
- LeBlanc43 games39.5%gap -9.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.1% · 621 g
- Vex39 games51.3%gap +3.7 ptsSoloQ: 45.6% · 351 g
- Aurora37 games54.1%gap +4.3 ptsSoloQ: 47.2% · 434 g
- Twisted Fate34 games47.1%gap -1.4 ptsSoloQ: 43.3% · 1,312 g
- Galio31 games51.6%gap -2.7 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 1,162 g
- Ryze31 games35.5%gap -16.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 369 g
- Zed29 games—SoloQ: 48.2% · 741 g
- Yasuo23 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 1,023 g
- Talon10 games—SoloQ: 47.2% · 534 g
- Galio5 games—SoloQ: 47.3% · 1,162 g
- Yunara119 games52.1%gap +4.8 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 1,784 g
- Kai'Sa104 games39.4%gap -9.8 ptsSoloQ: 48.4% · 2,841 g
- Jhin100 games49.0%gap -4.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 3,004 g
- Ezreal99 games64.6%gap +10.8 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 1,653 g
- Caitlyn89 games38.2%gap -8.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.4% · 1,330 g
- Lucian78 games44.9%gap -5.5 ptsSoloQ: 52.4% · 1,109 g
- Jinx72 games43.1%gap -2.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.7% · 1,469 g
- Xayah60 games50.0%gap +2.1 ptsSoloQ: 46.5% · 1,066 g
- Aphelios55 games63.6%gap +9.8 ptsSoloQ: 48.8% · 1,763 g
- Ashe46 games47.8%gap +1.7 ptsSoloQ: 50.6% · 403 g
- Tristana46 games47.8%gap -3.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.6% · 1,303 g
- Miss Fortune43 games53.5%gap +4.1 ptsSoloQ: 46.3% · 574 g
- Sivir43 games58.1%gap +9.5 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 349 g
- Zeri42 games40.5%gap -5.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 921 g
- Varus26 games—SoloQ: 49.4% · 348 g
- Corki21 games—SoloQ: 50.4% · 474 g
- Kalista19 games—SoloQ: 45.9% · 780 g
- Draven8 games—SoloQ: 45.7% · 418 g
- Nautilus107 games48.6%gap -2.8 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,754 g
- Lulu102 games56.9%gap +5.4 ptsSoloQ: 46.2% · 1,806 g
- Leona86 games59.3%gap +10.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 959 g
- Thresh85 games48.2%gap +0.3 ptsSoloQ: 44.7% · 1,956 g
- Braum81 games49.4%gap +2.3 ptsSoloQ: 48.5% · 787 g
- Milio73 games46.6%gap -4.0 ptsSoloQ: 56.4% · 445 g
- Blitzcrank58 games41.4%gap -6.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 1,270 g
- Alistar57 games47.4%gap -0.7 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 1,244 g
- Rakan54 games46.3%gap -4.1 ptsSoloQ: 46.3% · 807 g
- Karma51 games56.9%gap +5.2 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 996 g
- Yuumi49 games42.9%gap -4.4 ptsSoloQ: 52.7% · 670 g
- Seraphine43 games44.2%gap -4.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 486 g
- Bard39 games51.3%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 54.6% · 1,078 g
- Neeko37 games40.5%gap -7.6 ptsSoloQ: 45.5% · 290 g
- Rell37 games48.6%gap +3.8 ptsSoloQ: 45.9% · 870 g
- Pyke29 games—SoloQ: 48.9% · 771 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Mid
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+3.6%17,087 picks of 471,269ban 17.1% · patches 16.20 to 16.22
- Amateur tournaments3.3%858 picks of 25,798ban 20.2% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro6.0%136 picks of 2,252bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
27.3% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Mid- 7.0%G1293 games of 4,159
- 7.0%G2290 games of 4,166
- 5.9%G3+107 games of 1,807

