Why was Akali so hated, but Sylas is fine?

Terozu·Jun 3, 2019·6 votes·2,926 views

His heal is a targetted dash that's far more powerful. He also has another dash that gives him an above average strength shield. That then becomes a third dash(abduct is considered a different ability, that's 4 basic abilities btw) which stuns then knocks up a target. He has an aoe damage burst that then bursts again.

That's 3 dashes in basic abilities.

And then he can use literally any ult in the game.

Compared to a character from a different game, The Morrigan from smite.

She has a skill shot mark that increases damage dealt. She has a close range stun. She has a stealth decoy. Her ult temp gives her the character's entire kit and can target enemies and allies.

Yet she still isn't as frustrating to deal with, because?

She's actually built with a power budget. She dies to a fucking sneeze. Some cases that is literal.

Blizzard aknowledged that her ult is an insane amount of power. They took it and gave her a simplified base kit, with a bit of self peel and made her squishy to make up for it, letting the player rely on wits to trick a foe.

Sylas? His ult is an insane amount of power. Riot took this, and decided, that he needed a stronger than average base kit, with more tools than a normal champion. On top of that, they made him tankier than average.

And leading this back to the title, WHY DOES NO ONE SEEM TO CARE!?

The outcry against Akali was so fucking loud. She lost both obscurance and her healing, which was her whole shtick!

Even though the healing was far less powerful and actually had a condition in that to utilize it she had to play passively and wait for a spell rotation.

His heal is more powerful and far more aggressive. He has anywhere from 1 less dash than her to 2 more dashes than her.

Why does no one seem to care or mention anything about him?

You mean 30% lowered. Damage buff is compensation mostly, its +4 at level 1 and +6 at level 18. Wow. Massive. Totally net neutral. The two charges is nothing. All it does it let you use E1 and immediately E2, good sylas players don't need two charges as they would space out E1 and E2. The Q's secondary damage AP ratio is getting lowered by 1/3rd and its base damage cut by 5 - 30, which is pretty extreme considering Sylas relies heavily on his Q for damage, as his W is mainly an execute, and he's often forced to save it for the heal. W heal is a revert buff. E moving of the shield is massive. This effectively means in lane, your shield lasts 0.5 seconds less (as thats the time of his E2's stun) and also hurts his dueling, since Sylas in lane often delays between E1 and E2, which means hes much less safe. The shield base strength buff tries to help with this, but this is very far from a net neutral change. You're deluding yourself if you think the changes to sylas are neutral, they cripple his safety and massively hurt his ability to lane into ranged champions especially. His W healing and E shield compensation aren't enough to make this a net neutral change, when mechanically, he's losing much of what makes him strong.

EDIT: Here's the actual Changelist thats on the PBE, so that we can have full clarity:

Petricite Burst (Passive)