Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "You're scared, good to know."
Game Start[]
- Music upon start of the game
- ▶️ A stripped-down version of "GIANTS" plays.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Take one life at a time. Fast. Clean."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Time to do what's gotta be done."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The rules hold you back! Leave 'em for someone who needs 'em."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let's make this quick."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "We're gonna do this my way: quick, and deadly."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Stay outta my way!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Finally. Let's do this."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I make problems... disappear."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am my own master. Just the way I like it."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Gonna carve my own path."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I'm not here to make friends."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Can't stop what's comin'."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Everyone dies; I just... speed things up."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You can never have too many kunai."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Cold steel and a target are all I need."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I work alone, it's better for everyone."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You will not stop me!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The words on their tombstones will be my new mantras."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No one tells me what to do. Not anymore."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It's not about the killing. It's about who's doing the dying."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Playtime's over."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Magic's fine — steel's better."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Restraint's not... really my thing."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "If they're smart, they're scared."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let 'em see me, they can't stop me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I love what I do. My enemies won't."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Wars are messy. My kills are clean."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The old ways just don't work."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "How about I just end this."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No more meditation or masters!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Skill and steel will get the job done."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They can't stop me. I mean, they can try."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Kama, or kunai... Depends how I'm feelin'."
Long Move[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Forget balance. This is a reckoning."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It's not the killing I'm about — it's the cause."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The only rule that matters, is that your enemies don't walk away."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I got a pack full of trouble, and nothing but time."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "So many enemies, so many knives."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "If you look dangerous, you better be dangerous."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Everyone's got a weakness. That's my target."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The Kinkou couldn't control me. I do what they wouldn't."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "There are over three hundred pressure points on the human body. No one can protect 'em all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I'll make this look like magic."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The Fist of Shadow was my mom — I do things differently."
First Encounter[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Look, I don't wanna kill you... but I will."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Call it a purse. I dare you."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I was trained to kill since I could walk."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your window to run away... is closing."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You think you're gonna walk away?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Still time for you to do the smart thing: go home."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You may wanna rethink this little encounter."
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- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I'm here to finish what Shen couldn't."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am so sick of shadows."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Ohoho, Zed... This, I will enjoy."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let me show you my secrets, Zed."
- First Encounter with
Taunt[]
- Akali drops her kama and twirls her kunai.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I can make this fast, or really fast. Choice is yours."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Oh, look. Someone's got a death wish."
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ ▶️ "That is just another reason for you to die."
- ▶️ ▶️ "You really want those to be your last words?"
Joke[]
- ▶️ Akali eats ramen.
- Joke Response
Laugh[]
Dance[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 60% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Quick and deadly!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You're done."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I'm right here."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let's go."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Feel me now?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Better bring it."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This won't take long."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let's have some fun."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Don't hold back."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Too fast! Too good!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ *chuckles* "Oh, you're gonna bleed."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Okay, this, I got."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Try to keep up!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Should've run."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let's end this."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Can't stop me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I can do this all day."
- Attacking
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No more rules."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Time for you to learn."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Our wills do not align."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This must be done."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This, is necessary."
- Attacking
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No more masters."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Secrets kept die with you, Zed!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Shadows don't scare me."
- Attacking an Ionian Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Actions have consequences."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Now, it's personal."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Hehe. Come on, I dare ya!"
- Attacking a Noxian Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You came a long way to die."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Only good Noxian... is a dead one."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your colors won't fly here!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Watch your back."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Quickness is strength."
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- Using empowered attack within bonus attack range
- Using empowered attack within normal attack range
Using []
- 25% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
Using []
- Entering Shroud
Using []
- 30% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Yeah!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "See ya!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- Upon completing Recast dash
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali huffs.
Using []
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali grunts.
- Recast
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali shouts in effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali shouts in effort.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Perfect execution."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You're dead, I'm alive. See? Balance!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You look so peaceful."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Deftly I travel. Swiftly you die."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Heard you were tougher."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Smoked 'em."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Who's next?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Still feeling confident?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Like you had a chance."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "That's right — payback hits hard."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You don't get back what I take."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I'm already thinking about my next target."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Well you aren't much of a challenge."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Mark acquired, and eliminated."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Youth and skill, every time."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They had it coming."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali laughs triumphantly.
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
- Killing
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- Music
- ▶️ Akali dances to an instrumental version of "POP/STARS".
- ▶️ Akali dances to an instrumental version of "GIANTS".
- ▶️ Akali dances to an instrumental version of "MORE".
Death[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali suffocates.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali suffocates.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali suffocates.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Akali suffocates.
- Respawn
Game Start[]
- Music upon start of the game
- ▶️ A stripped-down version of Star Guardian 2022's orchestral theme plays.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "I'm here to kick butt and save people! That, uh... that's it."
- ▶️ "They'll never notice I'm gone until it's too late."
- ▶️ "The other Guardians shine bright. I work best in shadow."
- ▶️ "Let's go, Umi. We've got a world to save."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ Akali chuckles. "Alright, alright, alright, time to get serious."
- First Move with Ally
- ▶️ "That's the monster that's been following me. Euugh, is it looking? Oh, please say no."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- First Move with Ally
- ▶️ "I only see you for missions now, Kai'Sa. What happened to 'best friends forever'?"
- First Move with an Ally Star Guardian
- ▶️ "No falling stars today. Not you, and not me."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Taking the Oath shouldn't be a death sentence."
- ▶️ "For Star Guardians, there's always another fight."
- ▶️ "Star Guardians have rules? Ugh."
- ▶️ "It's not a double life, it's two lives half-lived."
- ▶️ "Fighting is what I do best, so I fight for them."
- ▶️ "Shadows do not equal evil! Geez..."
- ▶️ "My friends are my power."
- ▶️ "Guardians don't get happy endings."
- ▶️ "We were heroes before we took the Oath."
- ▶️ "I just want my friend back."
- ▶️ "So, no one else questions the First Star, huh?"
- ▶️ "I don't believe in the First Light. I believe in us."
- ▶️ "A Guardian's legacy? Stardust and regret."
- ▶️ "I won't fall. I won't fall."
- ▶️ "We're just sparkly little soldiers in a never-ending war."
- ▶️ "School won't teach you how to fight."
- ▶️ "The mission doesn't matter. My city, these people, they do."
- ▶️ "I'll find a way for us to survive. I have to."
- ▶️ "The only one who can psych me out is me."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "Umi, you get me."
- ▶️ "I can count on you, right, Umi?"
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "Ramen after this?"
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "Stay aware of your surroundings."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "Least I still have you, Umi."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
Long Move[]
- ▶️ "Sacrificing yourself isn't noble. It just leaves the ones you love picking up the pieces."
- ▶️ "We swore to protect the world, but... we're part of it, too."
- ▶️ "Kai'Sa and I swore to save the world together, but... first we have to save ourselves."
- ▶️ "I sometimes wonder if taking the Oath was a mistake. But I won't let my team fight alone."
- ▶️ "No one told me how hard it would be to balance world-saving and homework."
- ▶️ "When Star Guardians lose themselves to doubt, to despair, they fall."
- ▶️ Akali sings a portion of Everything Goes On but then trails off. "...Whatever."
- ▶️ "Kai'Sa's more worried about being a Guardian than being a friend. Akali scoffs. She's changed."
- ▶️ "I'll protect my friends... even if they go off and do big dumb hero things."
- ▶️ "Star Guardians burn bright then burn out. Doesn't anyone care?"
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You may be their hero, Ahri, but you're not mine."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Hey, Ekko. If you, uh, figure out time travel, let me know. Got a few mistakes to fix."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "What is that thing?! Stop following me!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Kai'Sa, stop trying to be Lux! Do you wanna end up a statue, too?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Is that Lux? So you came down from your pedestal after all."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Sorry, Fortune, but I won't go easy on ya. We're both Guardians now."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Get away from me, Morgana! I won't fall to you!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "I don't need babysitting, Nilah!"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "With or without the mask, a Guardian is a Guardian, Quinn."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "I'm not gonna make your mistakes, Rakan. You lost yourself. I won't."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "Hey, Rell. Took some time out of skipping school to be a Guardian today?"
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "March to your own tempo, Sona, not the First Star's."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You're stronger than you think, Taliyah. Now it's time to prove it."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ "You know what it means to fall, Xayah... better than most."
Taunt[]
- Akali points her kunai threateningly and brandishes it.
- ▶️ "Come on, you really want to try us?"
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ "'Oh no, I'm shaking in my pretty Star Guardian boots.' Idiot."
Joke[]
- Akali tries to eat a bowl of ramen, but Umi distracts her and tries to steal the ramen for itself.
- ▶️ "Hey! I want some too!"
- Joke Response
- ▶️ "Uh... ha ha?"
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Akali laughs.
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 20% chance
Attacking[]
- ▶️ "Last chance!"
- ▶️ "Don't blink."
- ▶️ "Come at me!"
- ▶️ "Let's go, Umi!"
- ▶️ "Ha! No way."
- ▶️ "Just try us!"
- ▶️ "Cuts deep, huh?"
- ▶️ "Faster than starlight!"
- ▶️ "Won't beat me."
- ▶️ "Hit hard, hit fast!"
- Attacking
- ▶️ "Is this a fallen Star Guardian, too?"
Ability Casting[]
Using []
- Using empowered attack
- 15% chance
- ▶️ "Bet you felt that!"
Using []
- 20% chance
- ▶️ "Shadow strike!"
- ▶️ "Eat kunai!"
- ▶️ "Not a fan!"
- ▶️ "Shooting stars!"
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
Using []
- 20% chance
- ▶️ "Star shadow!"
- ▶️ "Now you see me, now you don't."
- ▶️ "Shine in darkness!"
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
Using []
- 30% chance
- ▶️ "Umi on target!"
- ▶️ "Calling my shot!"
- ▶️ "Can't escape me now!"
- ▶️ "Marked!"
- ▶️ "Now, Umi!"
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
- ▶️ Akali grunts.
Using []
- Recast
- Ranking for the first time
- ▶️ "Starlight or darkness... either way, now I'm ready."
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ "Stars, guarded."
- ▶️ "Nice work! Who's next?"
- ▶️ "Ha! We got 'em, Umi!"
- ▶️ "A little star-struck?"
- ▶️ "Always more enemies."
- ▶️ "You threaten my friends, you die."
- ▶️ "I'll keep fighting, I'll keep winning."
- ▶️ "Aw, you tried. Gold star."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Looks like 'little miss Ahri' isn't so perfect after all."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Rewind and try again?"
- Killing
- ▶️ "Put you out of your misery! ...I-I think, it's kinda hard to tell..."
- Killing
- ▶️ "What kind of messed-up star makes you fight your best friend?!"
- Killing
- ▶️ "Gotta get you a new statue, Lux."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You protect your friends, Fortune. Well, so do I."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Not today, Morgana! Not today."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You're the big shot hero of the stars? Do better, Nilah."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Get yourself together, Quinn. A Guardian has to know how to work alone."
- Killing
- ▶️ " fighting to save you, Rakan. Least you could do is not die."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Bye bye, Sebastien."
- Killing
- ▶️ "It's okay, Sona, take a beat."
- Killing
- ▶️ "Still haven't figured yourself out yet, Taliyah? It's okay, you will."
- Killing
- ▶️ "You want to save him, Xayah? Then you've gotta be better than this."
- Destroying a Turret
- Scoring First Blood
- ▶️ "One down, a bajillion star monsters to go."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- ▶️ "With my friends, I'll always rise from the shadows!"
Shopping[]
- Opening the Shop
- 25% chance
- ▶️ "Alright, what have we got today?"
- ▶️ "Ooh, I could really use some ramen..."
- ▶️ "What? No snacks? Alright, what else you got?"
Other Gameplay[]
- Leveling Up
- 20% chance
- ▶️ "Alright, I'm in the zone!"
- ▶️ "I'm stronger than before. Is that enough?"
- ▶️ "Getting stronger is the only option."
- ▶️ "Can you feel it, Umi?"
Pinging[]
- 'Assist Me'
- ▶️ "Could use some help over here!"
- 'Danger'
- ▶️ "Whoa! Watch out!"
- 'Enemy Missing'
- ▶️ "Where'd they go?"
- 'On My Way'
- ▶️ "I'm coming, be there soon!"
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- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ "Just give me a minute, okay?"
- ▶️ "Does this friendship bracelet mean nothing to her?"
- ▶️ "I'm not tired. I'm not giving up. I'm not gonna fall!"
- ▶️ "I can't lose myself now!"
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "I'll be fine. Just gotta take a break."
- Music
- ▶️ A shortened version of Star Guardian 2022's orchestral theme plays.
Death[]
- ▶️ Akali grunts. "Kai'Sa..."
- ▶️ "I won't fall... I won't..."
- ▶️ "Should've been... stronger..."
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ Umi noises.
- ▶️ "I couldn't stop it..."
- Respawn
Trivia[]
- ▶️ "Steel beats Rock, references ."Pokemon, where Rock-type Pokémon are weak to Steel-type attacks.
- ▶️ "Everyone dies; I just... speed things up." resembles ▶️ "Everybody dies. Some just need a little help".
- ▶️ "The will comes from within, not from the blade." refers to title, The Will of the Blade.
- ▶️ "Deftly I travel. Swiftly you die." references her pre-rework line ▶️ "Deftly I travel."
- Akali shares quotes with:
- ▶️ "So many noobs... will matchmaking ever find true balance?" references (albeit in a rather tongue-in-cheek fashion) the criticism towards the matchmaking system, often matching up teams of wildly varying levels, causing lower-leveled players to be stomped on by higher-level ones.
- She was one of the few champions to say "noob", along with .
- ▶️ "Tread lightly." resembles ▶️ "Tread carefully."
- ▶️ "'Oh no, I'm shaking in my pretty Star Guardian boots.' Idiot." references Megamind.
- ▶️ "Not today, ! Not today." is a reference to RuPaul's Drag Race.
- It also resembles ▶️ "Not today, Caitlyn! Not today!"
- ▶️ "My friends are my power." most likely references Kingdom Hearts.
- ▶️ "Bye bye, Sebastien." references Parks and Recreation.