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Suggestion for Akali

banana boy·2/13/2019, 1:51:38 AM·3 votes·6,572 views

As many of you are well aware, Akali Akali has been "next to deleted" in this 9.3 patch. The nerfs hit her WAY TOO HARD. She already had a pretty low winrate, and it's not going any higher now. So here's some solutions that I propose to the dev team.

Q: Five Point Strike Problem: With the removal of her heal, she's having trouble being able to sustain in lane, especially against strong POKE champions. She just doesn't have the ability to stay healthy. Solution:

  • Reduce the amount of healing, but make it still exist. (Generally speaking.)
  • Maybe remove/decrease the AD ratio with healing.
  • Increase healing based on how many enemies Five Point Strike actually hit, so it won't be as effective to just Q one minion and keep waiting for energy to heal.
  • Maybe also change the required amount of energy to heal to 190 or maybe the full 200.

W: Twilight Shroud **Problem: ** Twilight Shroud has lost its name and uniqueness with the removal of True stealth. But for the cherry on top, the cooldown was nerfed too! This is way too much. Solution:

  • Have True stealth in the first 0.5 - 1 second of using shroud, so you can drop turret aggro ONCE when going for a dive, but you can't just completely go under turret without minions to destroy someone.
  • Get rid of the cooldown nerf, or give it another small nerf AND have the cooldown start counting as soon as shroud is used, instead of after it is done.

Thank you for reading, and I hope these changes get considered!

15 Comments

nelogis2/13/2019, 10:40:03 AM3 votes

Q: Five Point Strike Problem: With the removal of her heal, she's having trouble being able to sustain in lane, especially against strong POKE champions. She just doesn't have the ability to stay healthy.

Yeah.... it got removed BECAUSE she was able to stay healthy against poke champs

Poke champs are suppose to be her counter, she shouldn't have a counter to her counter.

No she doesn't need a heal, like any other assassin that doesn't need a heal.

W: Twilight Shroud Problem: Twilight Shroud has lost its name and uniqueness with the removal of True stealth. But for the cherry on top, the cooldown was nerfed too! This is way too much.

It didn't lose true stealth but ok, TF / Lee still can't reveal her because that would be too much counterplay, can't have that!

IMO she relies too much on shroud, the ability is way too powerful.

She needs a mini-rework not number changes Just goes to show what kind of garbage design she is, one of the newest champs and she already needs a rework.

Tobykachu2/13/2019, 2:25:31 AM2 votes

You are aware they nerfed her for a reason right? Of course if they take things away from her kit she will have problems doing the things they used to do. Even with her 42% win rate last patch she was a hugely problematic champion, with a very high presence in competitive play. Her shroud, even with the removal of the true stealth, offers absolutely no counterplay. She simply re enters stealth too quickly to offer valid counterplay to most people. Heck, she is basically invincible if she's against someone playing on moderately higher ping.

Honestly I wouldn't mind if they gave her the true stealth back as it seems more like a band aid fix to her than anything, as she's so rarely in a position to towerdive, as her waveclear is pretty mediocre and her damage isn't all that high until she gets some items under her belt and by that time, most assassins have the ability to dive you under tower, delete you and get out whilst taking no more than one turret hit.