Dealing spell damage to a champion creates a ring of energy around them. Exiting that ring empowers Akali's next Attack with bonus range and damage.
QFive Point Strike1.5s110/100/90/80/70
Akali throws out five kunai, dealing damage based on her bonus Attack Damage and Ability Power and slowing.
WTwilight Shroud20/19/18/17/16s
Akali drops a cover of smoke and briefly gains Move Speed. While inside the shroud, Akali becomes invisible and unable to be selected by enemy spells and attacks. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her.
EShuriken Flip16/14.5/13/11.5/10s30
Flip backward and fire a shuriken forward, dealing magic damage. The first enemy or smoke cloud hit is marked. Re-cast to dash to the marked target, dealing additional damage.
RPerfect Execution120/90/60s
Akali leaps in a direction, damaging enemies she strikes. Re-cast: Akali dashes in a direction, executing all enemies she strikes.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the shuriken could travel across the map, allowing her to hit and dash to targets at unintended distances.Nerf
26.8· Apr 15, 2026Nerfed
Assassin's Mark
Undocumented / New Effect: Now has an uncancellable windup.Nerf
26.5· Mar 4, 2026
Twilight Shroud
Restealth timer changed to 1;0.9;0.825;0.725;0.625
from
1;0.9;0.825;0.725;0.625
.
Formula changed.
25.12· Jun 11, 2025
Assassin's Mark
Bug Fix: Ring indicator no longer sometimes appears around the incorrect characters.
25.11· May 29, 2025Adjusted
Five Point Strike
Bug Fix: The ability's collision area is now properly offset based on her cast direction instead of incorrectly always being offset toward the north of the map. Previously, this would cause the ability to hit targets further when targeted parallel to or at an approximate angle to the map's north axis.Adj.
35 older patches
25.8
Twilight Shroud
Bug Fix: Smoke piece particles no longer layer incorrectly and flicker while on elevated terrain.
25.7
Perfect Execution
Undocumented / Bug Fix: First cast is no longer able to expose (via the indicator) and cast on Neeko Inherent Glamour as a non-champion.
14.18
General
Bug Fix: Certain voiceover lines will now properly trigger to play.
14.15
Twilight Shroud
Cooldown reduced to 20 to 16 seconds from 20 at all ranks.
Perfect Execution
First cast base damage changed to 110 to 330 from 80 to 360.
Second cast minimum base damage increased to 70 to 210 from 60 to 200.
Second cast maximum base damage increased to 210 to 630 from 180 to 600.
Cooldown increased to 120 to 60 seconds from 100 to 60.
14.12
Shuriken Flip
Shuriken base damage reduced to 21 to 105 from 30 to 135.
Shuriken AD ratio increased to 30% AD from 25.5% AD.
Shuriken AP ratio reduced to 33% AP from 36% AP.
Dash base damage reduced to 49 to 245 from 70 to 315.
Dash AD ratio increased to 70% AD from 59.5% AD.
Dash AP ratio reduced to 77% AP from 84% AP.
14.8
Twilight Shroud
Bug Fix: No longer restores 200 energy instead of 100 upon cast.
Stats
Base health increased to 600 from 570.
14.2
Assassin's Mark
New Effect: Empowered attack can no longer expire during its windup against a target.
Bug Fix: No longer becomes unable to cast abilities for about 1.5 seconds if she uses the empowered attack at the last second.
13.16
Five Point Strike
Base damage increased to 45 to 145 from 40 to 140.
Energy cost reduced to 110 to 70 from 130 to 70.
13.11
Five Point Strike
Base damage increased to 40 to 140 from 30 to 130.
13.10
Shuriken Flip
Bug Fix: Can now properly cross walls with the dash.
13.5
Shuriken Flip
Bug Fix: Recast can no longer bypass the boundaries of Realm of Death.
12.18
Shuriken Flip
New Effect: Now applies true sight instead of a standard reveal.
12.15
Twilight Shroud
Bonus maximum energy increased to 100 from 80.
Energy restore increased to 100 from 80.
12.14
Assassin's Mark
Bug Fix: Spinning animation while the empowered attack is active no longer is delayed when issuing a movement command.
12.10
Stats
Base health increased to 570 from 500.
Health growth increased to 119 from 105.
Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
11.22
Assassin's Mark
Base damage increased to 35;38;41;44;47;50;53;62;71;80;89;98;107;122;137;152;167;182 from 29+3*(x-1) for 8;then +9*x for 5; then + 15*x.
AP ratio increased to 55% AP from 40% AP.
11.19
Stats
Base health regeneration increased to 9 from 8.
Health regeneration growth increased to 0.9 from 0.5.
11.14
Five Point Strike
Removed: Can no longer be cast during Shuriken Flip recast.
Attempting to cast the ability during either dash will buffer it to cast as soon as the dash ends.
Perfect Execution
Second cast minimum base damage reduced to 60 to 200 from 75 to 215.
Second cast maximum base damage reduced to 180 to 600 from 225 to 645.
11.10
Shuriken Flip
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where she would deal double damage if her target was very close to a wall.
11.7
Shuriken Flip
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where the tooltip would not update its damage numbers when buying or selling items.
11.6
Stats
Base health reduced to 500 from 575.
Health growth increased to 105 from 95.
Assassin's Mark
Removed: No longer restores 10 to 20 energy.
Five Point Strike
Energy cost changed to 130 to 70 from 120 to 100.
Removed: No longer deals 25% bonus damage against minions and monsters at max rank.
Twilight Shroud
New Effect: Now increases her maximum energy
11.2
Five Point Strike
Energy cost increased to 120 to 100 from 120 to 80.
11.1
Stats
Base attack damage reduced to 62 from 62.4.
10.25
Assassin's Mark
Bonus movement speed reduced to 30% to 60% from 40% to 70%.
Base damage reduced to 29+3*(x-1) for 8;then +9*x for 5; then + 15*x from 39+3*(x-1) for 8;then +9*x for 5; then + 15*x.