Should Akshan go crit or lethality?

The most reliable build on Akshan is the one that preserves the first spike while still keeping an escape valve. If your item order prevents you from playing the champion's first real window, the build may look strong on paper but it is not reliable.

When to side lane with Akshan?

You should adapt as soon as the enemy draft stops you from playing the timing the build was meant to serve. If you need to survive longer, absorb more poke, or answer a specific engage pattern, the purchase order must move before you even think about the final six-slot build.

Does Akshan scale well?

Stasis is usually the most stable choice because it protects the exact moment when Akshan takes the most risk. Change it only when another enchant answers the lobby's concrete problem more directly.

Akshan Wild Rift Best Build Guide (Patch 7.2a)

Builds — official CN server data (patch 7.2)

Three reads of the same champion, computed by our engine on official CN server data (current-patch stats, ratios and prices): a reliable base to adapt to your game. Why this data? →

Standard — crit DPS

Blade of the Ruined King

15,500 — total cost

Anti-tank — shred

Blade of the Ruined King›

Kraken Slayer›

Lord Dominik's Regards›

Infinity Edge›

Phantom Dancer

15,600 — total cost

Safety — kite & survive

Blade of the Ruined King›

15,600 — total cost

Recommended bootsBerserker's Greaves

Recommended runes

Power spikes (computed)

Early (1-5)

7/10

Mid (6-10)

8/10

Late (11-15)

9/10

Lv 6 Infinity EdgeLv 9 Phantom Dancer + Ultimate rank 2Lv 11 The Collector

Situational adaptations

Mortal ReminderAgainst healing (Soraka, Aatrox, lifesteal…)

Kraken SlayerAgainst 2+ tanks / HP stackers

Guardian AngelAgainst AD burst (assassins, Zed, Rengar…)

Mercurial ScimitarAgainst AP burst (Syndra, Fizz, Evelynn…)

Serylda's GrudgeAgainst heavy mobility

The detailed guide below dates from patch 7.0e and is being rewritten — for the current meta, rely on the variants above.

Akshan doesn’t win through DPS but through sequences. He creates instant numerical advantage and forces imbalance before fights stabilize. The build maximizes initial burst and re-entry potential.

Recommended Build

Starter

Long Sword

Core

The Collector

Magnetic Blaster

Mortal Reminder

The Collector

Executes low-health targets, triggering the resurrection passive

Magnetic Blaster

Bonus range for safe lane poke and kiting

Mortal Reminder

anti-heal on auto attacks doubles of passive Double Swing

Final Build

The Collector

Magnetic Blaster

Mortal Reminder

Bloodthirster

Infinity Edge

Gluttonous Greaves

Boots & enchant

Gluttonous Greaves

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Quicksilver

vs burst / dive

Stasis

Skill order

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Passive Combat déloyal

Boomerang vengeur

1468

Dans l’ombre

3121415

Balancier héroïque

271011

Juste châtiment

5913

Runes

Brutal

Strengthens trades double auto in early with dominate trades in lane.

Coup De Grace

Finishes with the R Comeuppance that target the HP bas targets.

Legend: Alacrity

Attack speed to trigger the Dirty passive Fighting double auto more often.

Bone Plating

Reduces incoming damage during his grappin W Heroic Swing at short range.

Situational Items

vs Ability Power

Infinity Edge

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Maw of Malmortius

vs Shielding

Infinity Edge

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Serpent's Fang

vs Assassins

Infinity Edge

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Guardian Angel

vs Crowd Control

Galeforce

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Quicksilver

Situational Runes

vs Tanks

Coup De Grace

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Giant Slayer

For More Carry Potential

Bone Plating

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Sudden Impact

Build timing

Two-item spike

Once his two main items are completed, Akshan stops being merely annoying in poke and becomes truly capable of killing isolated targets quickly while still threatening longer skirmishes. This is often the point where every side-vision mistake becomes punishable.

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