Akali vs Riven in Mid lane is a lane that swings with levels on patch 26.14. The one thing to respect: her E engage — don't combo into it; beat her on spacing by tracking her Q and E cooldowns. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · MIDAKALIthe Rogue Assassin

⇄ ChangeENEMY · MIDRIVENthe Exile

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Swings with levelsPre-6 MediumPost-6 HardTake Ignite

How to play it

✓ DO

Don't combo her E

Win on spacing — don't combo into her E; track her Q and E cooldowns and oneshot her before she oneshots you.

Punish her cooldowns

You can 1v1 her until roughly two items — all-in when her Q and E are down and burst her first.

Respect ult timers

Her R comes back up far faster than yours — don't fight while your R is down, and value ignite more the longer the game runs.

✕ DON'T

⛔

Never let her get a clean proxy — she skips laning phase and her scaling snowballs out of control.

Runes

DOMINATION

RESOLVEuniversal page

SHARDS

No rune change for this matchup — run the universal page, our every-game default.

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
		E							E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→E→W

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