Akshan Wild Rift Build & Guide

Innate Passive: Dirty Fighting

Akshan’s passive has three parts. First, his third attack deals bonus damage. An enemy is marked through auto-attacks, Akshan’s 1st ability,  Avengerang and 3rd ability, Heroic Swing. If the passive proc’ed on an enemy champion, Akshan gains a shield.

Abuse the shield whenever possible, especially in the laning phase where it can be used to create one-sided trading opportunities. If an enemy dives you when you are low on health, fight back with your 1st ability, Avengerang and auto-attacks to immediately proc your shield and turn the dive around.

Akshan has a grey bar underneath his mana bar that shows whether your shield is available.

The second part of Akshan’s passive is that he auto-attacks twice when stationary. The second attack deals 50% AD but applies 100% on-hit effects. This can be activated either by letting go of the movement button or by holding the attack button.

If you are holding the attack button, Akshan will stop moving while firing both attacks.

The third part of Akshan’s passive is that when you cancel the second attack by moving and not holding the attack button, Akshan will gain bonus movement speed.

One of the crucial factors in using Akshan is knowing when to use the double attack and when to cancel it.

Generally, you’d want to cancel the second attack if the enemy is fighting you back. The bonus movement speed will help you kite them and avoid their skillshots.

Use the double shot if you have allies with you and can freely hit the enemy.

If there is are two low health minions or champions (a rare case) close to each other, you can use the double shot to quickly kill both of them.

Use the double shot to finish off enemies that are going to get away from your auto-attack range, this is especially important if your ultimate, Comeuppance and 3rd ability, Heroic Swing are on cooldown.

Q | 1st Ability: Avengerang

Avengerang is Akshan’s main source of poke damage and waveclear and it adds another layer of bonus movement speed to Akshan’s kit. Its range extends for each enemy hit and enemies can hit all enemies twice.

Avengerang also applies Akshan’s passive, Dirty Fighting. If you hit an enemy with Avenegerang twice and with your auto-attack twice, you will deal a good amount of damage that is easy to pull off. This simple trading pattern is especially strong with Electrocute. 

Try to mirror the enemy’s movement horizontally to increase your chances of hitting them twice with your Avengerang.

In the mid to late game, Avengerang turns into your pseudo-artillery ability because of its range extension mechanic. Since you’d want to keep yourself alive to revive allies and, focus on damaging enemies with your Avengerang from behind your team so that if a Scoundrel dies, your allies will be revived even if you are at the backline.

Make it a habit to use Avengerang before activating your 3rd ability, Heroic Swing to increase the rate of applying your passive to your enemies.

You can also use Flash to animation cancel it and surprise enemies with an instant, long-range initiation. You can also use Flash to redirect the returning Avengerang to a low hp opponent.

W | 2nd Ability: Going Rogue

Going Rogue has two parts.

First is the infamous passive. Enemies that kill allied champions become Scoundrels for 40 seconds. When Akshan takedowns a Scoundrel, he gains bonus gold and revives the ally.

Take note that Akshan simply needs to takedown the enemy, he does not need to land the last hit. Although, he needs to damage the enemy within three seconds of the enemy dying for the passive to take effect.

This passive is extremely overpowered in the later stages of the game. You should coordinate with your team to takedown Scoundrels because Akshan is weak on 1v1s against full HP opponents.

If a fed enemy gets a triple or quadra kill. Try to bait them into fighting you under your turret so that you can revive your teammates.

The second part is the camouflage active. It has an extremely short duration but can be infinitely extended where near brush or terrain. If there is a Scoundrel, Akshan sees a trail of light while he is camouflage, giving him the idea on where the enemy is.

Once he is close enough to a Scoundrel (around the range of his ultimate, Comeuppance), Akshan gains a massive movement speed boost.

You can use the camouflage for roaming to evade wards. You can also use the camouflage to fake a roam and wait for the enemy to use their abilities before jumping on them, creating one-sided trading opportunities.

Do the same when you are ganking. Wait for the enemy to use their abilities before engaging on them.

In clashes, you can use the camouflage to sneak up on low HP enemies or isolated targets so you can burst them down.

Akshan is notified through an “!” exclamation mark above his head once an enemy is inside his detection range. This notification will show even if Akshan has no vision of the enemy, making it a useful scouting tool.

Once an enemy is inside Akshan’s detection range, his silhouette is vaguely seen. Be careful because Going Rogue’s detection range is the largest compared to other champions with camouflage.

Avoid using Going Rogue in the early game to gank other lanes unless you have absolute lane priority. As an assassin ADC, Akshan is item dependent and if he loses minions he will fall behind fast.

E | 3rd Ability: Heroic Swing

Heroic Swing is Akshan’s main mobility tool and burst damage tool. It allows him to attach his swing to a target terrain and swing left or right relative to the attached location. I recommend letting go of the movement button so you’d avoid swinging in a direction you do not want to go.

Heroic Swing deals a lot of damage if pulled off correctly. At level four, it deals 150 + 15% AD per shot and it applies a 25% on-hit effect on each hit. Because of this, on-hit items like Blade of The Ruined King and Wit’s End are extremely strong on Akshan. It also applies Akshan’s passive, Dirty Fighting. 

On average, you will hit enemies 3 to 5 times using Heroic Swing’s attacks. There is a higher probability of hitting the enemy with more shots if the enemy is near wall corners and near turrets/turret debris.

You can pull off full 360-degree swings on inhibitor turrets.

Heroic Swing is best used on low HP targets because it resets on takedowns. Once you get the hang of Heroic Swing, pulling off multiple swings on consecutive takedowns is an awesome feeling and it looks cool as heck.

You can reposition Akshan’s 1st ability, Avengerang and his ultimate, Comeuppance using Heroic Swing. In combination with Heroic Swing, you will be able to hit targets on impossible angles and surprise enemies.

Akshan jumps off his rope if he collides with an enemy champion or terrain, in order to avoid an awkward landing which will give the enemy a chance to burst you down, reactivate Heroic Swing before you hit an enemy champion or terrain, pressing it towards the opposite direction so you can have more room to move.

Enemies will try to body block you especially if you are using Heroic Swing to escape. To avoid this from happening, use it as early as possible if you want to escape, especially on ganks.

You can use Flash to cancel Heroic Swing to avoid the awkward landing and give yourself more time to attack or escape.

Honestly, there is no one magic tip for learning Heroic Swing. This ability is mechanically intensive and so you simply have to practice it over and over again to get the hang of it.

In Patch 2.5, Heroic Swing has been given a huge Quality of Life tweak. Akshan may now glide beside walls if he hits the wall at an obtuse angle. This will allow you to possibly traverse narrow passages in the jungle with finesse.

In order to increase your chances of gliding the wall, make sure that the dotted preview line does not hit the wall before you cast Heroic Swing.

R | Ultimate: Comeuppance

Comeuppance is Akshan’s long-range charging execution tool. It deals tons of damage, homes on the enemy, and its range about one screen long.

It sounds overpowered, I know. But of course, overpowered abilities have a catch. Comeuppance’s projectiles can be blocked by minions, enemy champions, or even turrets.

To work around this glaring weakness, we have two options:

• You can use Akshan’s 3rd ability, Heroic Swing to reposition yourself faster than the enemy can reposition themselves to block your ultimate.
  • Akshan can walk during the charging time of Comeuppance but he stops when firing the shots. Heroic Swing ignores that mechanic, allowing you to fire while swinging.
• You can re-cast Comeuppance early. If you re-cast Akshan’s ultimate early, you will fire fewer shots in exchange for the shorter charge time. If you re-cast it immediately, Akshan will fire two shots.
  • As an approximation tool, Akshan deals 5% of the enemy’s HP for each shot. So you can re-cast Comeuppance if the enemy has less than 10% HP and you can kill the enemy with a fully-charged ultimate when their HP is below 35% and more if you are fed. (Of course, it is a given that all the shots should hit).