2XKO Akali Guide - Moves, Combos, and Overview

Akali is a high-speed rushdown assassin built around mobility and mix-ups. She's a bit of glass cannon as she her health pool is one of the lowest in the game, but her offensive pressure is one of the highest. Baits, fakeouts, crossups, high/low, a command grab, and projectiles are all at her disposal.

Players who enjoy face paced mix-up champions such as Ekko and Ahri, or who have been looking for a change after the nerfs to Yasuo, should give Akali an honest try! Her kit is versatile, full of counterplay options, and she has some flashy combos.

Gameplay Reveal

Movelist

Double Jump and Wall Jump

Twilight Shroud

The black smoke that empowers all grounded specials performed. Player will have to keep in mind when Twilight Shroud is deployed, and if they will be within its AoE when deciding on attack and combo patters. This adds an extra bit of mental stack to her kit, similar to Warwick's Bloodlust state.

There are three ways you can deploy Twilight Shroud:

1. Twilights' Call S2 SpecialHold (Can be performed in neutral)
2. Midnight Breaker (S2 Special Combo ender)
3. Twilight Bringer Shuriken (S1 Special Super)

On top of all her specials reciving increase damage and hits, her S2 SpecialHold becomes a command grab when empowered.

When the black smoke is up, the opponents have to even more cautious and prepared with lighting fast reactions as Akali can chain together DownS2 Special Dusk Step teleports to further mixup her movement and attack angles, similar to Ekko with his Clones.

Pass Through

While covered by the black smoke, Akali gains the ability to pass through projectiles. She needs time to dash, then start sprinting before this activates, meaning you'll need to be early or guess ahead of time against the faster-moving projectiles.

Additionally, her DownS2 Special teleports and can be used to cross up the opponent or bypass projectiles.

Angled Projectiles

Akali has multiple versions of her Kunai Strike that she can perform. DownS1 Special is the base version where she performs a small hop-back before throwing out 3 Kunai, or she can Hold to jump higher. Each has a Rekka follow-up for additional hits. Both of these are empowered by Twilight Shroud, which fires more kunai and grants greater jump height.

ForwardTag is the remaining Kunai throw version. We've already seen how powerful disjointed hurtbox assists are in 2XKO, and it appears Akali's will be no exception.

• Until her official release, we are unable to test if any of these versions or her assist knock up on the ground opponents. If they do, this will maker her Tag extremely good as a combo extender similar to Vi's breaker assist.

BackTag has Air hit invulnerability same as the universal DownH Attack anti-air attack. This makes her back assist especially good for covering your Point characters approach against aerial opponents.