Akali
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · KR- Pick
- 9.4%picked in 1,711 of 18,216 games
- Ban
- 20.8%3,591 bans over 17,275 games, against 17.3% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,453 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 337,103 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 Ezreal in amateur play: +10.1 pts over 96 games, range above zero.+10.1 pt96 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
- 20.5%
- SoloQ
- 17.3%
- 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 Ezreal in amateur play: +10.1 pts over 96 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.
- Yone57 games49.1%gap +0.1 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 1,598 g
- Renekton56 games57.1%gap +8.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 705 g
- K'Sante55 games56.4%gap +5.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.0% · 1,107 g
- Ambessa53 games52.8%gap +3.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 815 g
- Malphite52 games53.8%gap +6.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.0% · 702 g
- Sion50 games56.0%gap +6.7 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 437 g
- Mordekaiser49 games42.9%gap -4.9 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 281 g
- Aatrox45 games42.2%gap -6.1 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 750 g
- Nasus43 games44.2%gap -3.3 ptsSoloQ: 51.9% · 453 g
- Gnar42 games52.4%gap +2.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 501 g
- Ornn42 games31.0%gap -16.0 ptsSoloQ: 41.2% · 187 g
- Dr. Mundo38 games44.7%gap -6.1 ptsSoloQ: 52.8% · 381 g
- Camille37 games43.2%gap -3.5 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 548 g
- Jax30 games46.7%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 790 g
- Olaf30 games53.3%gap +5.9 ptsSoloQ: 52.0% · 454 g
- Irelia23 games—SoloQ: 50.7% · 915 g
- Jayce21 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,347 g
- Darius12 games—SoloQ: 48.0% · 458 g
- Fiora12 games—SoloQ: 49.7% · 698 g
- Gangplank11 games—SoloQ: 48.0% · 882 g
- Jayce7 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,347 g
- Pantheon7 games—SoloQ: 47.7% · 688 g
- Malphite6 games—SoloQ: 47.0% · 702 g
- Darius5 games—SoloQ: 48.0% · 458 g
- Pantheon5 games—SoloQ: 47.7% · 688 g
- Lee Sin136 games52.2%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 2,623 g
- Sylas94 games45.7%gap -2.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.8% · 1,485 g
- Wukong92 games38.0%gap -6.5 ptsSoloQ: 48.3% · 509 g
- Jarvan IV83 games50.6%gap -0.3 ptsSoloQ: 52.8% · 884 g
- Vi75 games49.3%gap +0.7 ptsSoloQ: 48.9% · 713 g
- Xin Zhao48 games47.9%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 474 g
- Nocturne47 games63.8%gap +12.7 ptsSoloQ: 55.3% · 293 g
- Lillia43 games41.9%gap -4.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 569 g
- Sejuani42 games59.5%gap +11.1 ptsSoloQ: 55.9% · 143 g
- Qiyana38 games44.7%gap -5.5 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 1,320 g
- Graves30 games63.3%gap +14.4 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 923 g
- Nidalee30 games36.7%gap -11.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 1,338 g
- Naafiri28 games—SoloQ: 52.2% · 582 g
- Viego28 games—SoloQ: 51.2% · 850 g
- Jayce26 games—SoloQ: 56.5% · 504 g
- Kha'Zix21 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 740 g
- Elise15 games—SoloQ: 44.9% · 613 g
- Hecarim13 games—SoloQ: 46.0% · 797 g
- Master Yi10 games—SoloQ: 46.5% · 566 g
- Naafiri10 games—SoloQ: 52.2% · 582 g
- Viktor136 games54.4%gap +5.8 ptsSoloQ: 54.3% · 1,604 g
- Yone85 games45.9%gap +0.2 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,758 g
- Ahri62 games43.5%gap -2.5 ptsSoloQ: 43.0% · 604 g
- Galio61 games49.2%gap 0.0 ptsSoloQ: 46.5% · 1,154 g
- Locke60 games50.0%gap -1.7 ptsSoloQ: 52.5% · 1,837 g
- Sylas57 games52.6%gap +1.7 ptsSoloQ: 54.7% · 1,537 g
- Orianna56 games57.1%gap +4.4 ptsSoloQ: 45.9% · 649 g
- Lissandra55 games49.1%gap -1.7 ptsSoloQ: 38.8% · 768 g
- Syndra53 games49.1%gap +0.4 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 1,001 g
- LeBlanc41 games43.9%gap -5.2 ptsSoloQ: 49.9% · 587 g
- Vex38 games55.3%gap +8.0 ptsSoloQ: 45.8% · 373 g
- Twisted Fate35 games45.7%gap -1.6 ptsSoloQ: 43.1% · 1,328 g
- Galio34 games50.0%gap -4.5 ptsSoloQ: 46.5% · 1,154 g
- Ryze34 games41.2%gap -10.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.7% · 398 g
- Aurora33 games51.5%gap +1.6 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 437 g
- Zed30 games33.3%gap -8.9 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 732 g
- Yasuo25 games—SoloQ: 46.9% · 1,024 g
- Talon12 games—SoloQ: 48.3% · 540 g
- Galio5 games—SoloQ: 46.5% · 1,154 g
- Yunara127 games54.3%gap +7.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 1,992 g
- Kai'Sa114 games36.8%gap -11.7 ptsSoloQ: 48.7% · 2,799 g
- Jhin99 games49.5%gap -3.7 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 2,973 g
- Ezreal96 games63.5%gap +10.1 ptsSoloQ: 53.7% · 1,681 g
- Caitlyn88 games42.0%gap -4.8 ptsSoloQ: 51.2% · 1,368 g
- Lucian83 games45.8%gap -3.6 ptsSoloQ: 52.2% · 1,122 g
- Jinx78 games38.5%gap -6.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 1,491 g
- Xayah58 games46.6%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 46.4% · 973 g
- Aphelios55 games61.8%gap +8.4 ptsSoloQ: 48.7% · 1,743 g
- Ashe48 games47.9%gap +1.5 ptsSoloQ: 51.7% · 441 g
- Tristana45 games46.7%gap -3.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 1,361 g
- Zeri44 games43.2%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.8% · 918 g
- Miss Fortune43 games51.2%gap +2.5 ptsSoloQ: 47.2% · 566 g
- Sivir43 games55.8%gap +7.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.2% · 343 g
- Varus26 games—SoloQ: 47.9% · 334 g
- Corki21 games—SoloQ: 49.9% · 461 g
- Kalista17 games—SoloQ: 45.4% · 765 g
- Nautilus118 games47.5%gap -2.9 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,737 g
- Lulu104 games54.8%gap +3.5 ptsSoloQ: 46.3% · 1,856 g
- Thresh90 games46.7%gap -0.7 ptsSoloQ: 44.2% · 1,981 g
- Braum83 games48.2%gap +1.8 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 798 g
- Leona80 games58.8%gap +10.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.5% · 953 g
- Milio73 games49.3%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 55.7% · 469 g
- Blitzcrank60 games45.0%gap -3.3 ptsSoloQ: 46.7% · 1,295 g
- Rakan58 games46.6%gap -2.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.1% · 780 g
- Alistar54 games44.4%gap -3.4 ptsSoloQ: 48.6% · 1,243 g
- Yuumi50 games44.0%gap -3.4 ptsSoloQ: 53.6% · 686 g
- Karma47 games59.6%gap +8.6 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 1,012 g
- Seraphine46 games45.7%gap -1.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 502 g
- Bard40 games45.0%gap -2.4 ptsSoloQ: 55.4% · 1,090 g
- Neeko36 games41.7%gap -5.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.0% · 298 g
- Rell34 games50.0%gap +5.3 ptsSoloQ: 45.9% · 883 g
- Pyke31 games58.1%gap +5.9 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 768 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%24,156 picks of 674,205ban 17.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments3.3%776 picks of 23,550ban 20.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro6.1%136 picks of 2,238bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
27.6% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Mid- 7.2%G1300 games of 4,186
- 6.9%G2288 games of 4,186
- 6.0%G3+108 games of 1,794

