Akali in the new mage update

So this has already been brought up in a few posts, but as an Akali main I wanted to bring this up myself. Everyone is hearing about the new mage update and how spell vamp has been removed. Now the champs that mainly use spell vamp currently are Akali, Vladimir, and Morgana. I'm going to be focusing on Akali, as she is my main.

I understand the fact that spell vamp itself is not being removed from the game. Her passive will still have spell vamp, but it requires more for her to sustain early game. Hextech revolver currently gives +12% spell vamp and costs 1200g. Let's face it; Akali's early laning is shit until you get this item to give you some sustain. Otherwise you got champs like Zed, Ekko, Ahri, Brand, and Yasuo poking you endlessly and screwing up your already crap farm. The new update removes that familiar spell vamp from the revolver and just pushes your laning back ridiculously far.

In turn, what ends up happening is:

1. You get poked and have to recall every minute
2. You rack up a death or two
3. It takes tons of extra time to actually get the gunblade.

Now the gunblade is a different story. Right now, it's spell vamp effects are "Heal for 15% of damage dealt. This is 33% as effective for Area of Effect damage."

The "new and improved" gunblade provides a different type of effect. "Instantly heal for portion of all damage dealt, including physical, magical and true damage. This effect is reduced for area-effect spells."

Akali's E is an AoE attack. The gunblade is easy to get, and provides great spell vamp for both her Q _ AND_ E. The update makes it harder to get the gunblade, doesn't specify exactly how much the heal is (%) AND totally reverses the extra damage that her E gets from the "33% as effective" passive.

And now we move onto the uproar.

The TOTAL REMOVAL of Will Of The Ancients R.I.P

This item gave you the extra spell vamp you needed with Akali once you get into mid to late game kills. "Abilities instantly heal for 15% of raw damage dealt, including physical, magical and true damage. Area of effect abilities only heal 5% for every unit affected."

Stacking up with the spell vamp from gunblade, after you got this all you had to do was build AP and get tons of kills.

I just feel like this update is gonna destroy her as a champ. My friend, a long time league player and PBE tester, literally told me: "Just refund that headhunter skin and learn someone else. She's no longer gonna be playable."

BUT I REFUSE TO GIVE UP.

I just hope someone that can make a difference will see this.