Talk:Akali/@comment-27588937-20160111014009/@comment-24385282-20160121033021

She's got great health sustain but you have to nonstop spam your abilities to get through early clears while maximizing your use of spell vamp. Basically, use as often as possible in every clear until your first back or until around level 5, mixing in  on the large monster of each camp until your spam drains all your energy, then resort to your E and basic attacks until the camp is down. Because of this, you'll definitely want to max Crescent Slash first, for the cooldown, lower energy cost, and damage.

You'll pretty much never want to use your on a camp for clearing it. It may seem like, but because your ultimate works on a stack system instead of fully resetting, you're putting a third consecutive use of this spell on a cooldown that goes as high as 30 seconds. Doing so can lose you a kill in a successful gank or get you killed in a failed one.

Items are pretty standard, you'll want to get on first Recall and rush a  quickly after because of your lacking crowd control (that 14% slow on  is doing just about nothing, and you won't put more points into that skill until after laning phase). You'll then get some standard Akali items, plus the, the standard ones being items such as , , , the aforementioned Hextech Gunblade, , and maybe a situational , , or. As jungler, some items that laner grab will be exceptionally good on you, like  for the helpful slow in ganks, chases, or escapes, and, since you'll be more basic attack-reliant than usual in the jungle, but also allowing you to fight better by applying Twin Disciples' on-hit magic damage more often, not to mention the plethora of good stats both of these items grant.

Your ganks will be weak, which means you'll be reliant on teamfights, skirmishes in the jungle, and farm, which is why you definitely want to max Crescent Strike over Mark of the Assassin. In teamfights, it gives more AoE damage, in skirmishes you'll probably be 1v1 melee and Crescent Strike is better sustained damage given the cooldown, so long as you can get in range, and Crescent Strike is obviously better for farming like I said in the first paragraph. Unless you get invaded a lot, keep the Stalker's Blade, it's basically mandatory for ganking even slightly okay at all due to how lacking you are in CC without Ryali's or Gunblade, which you can't get until much later in the game. If you are getting invaded a ton, go for instead, as it will help you win the duels, and it's okay in teamfights if you  the enemy carry, which will help you survive if you get focused by them, but for assassination damage and for the slow,  is better.