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Riot admit you ruined Akali with the rework and the nerfs that followed up to 9.3

Sxoda·1/30/2019, 9:20:05 PM·3 votes·1,819 views

I enjoyed the old Akali, her kit was outdated but either way fine. And right when the rework came out I liked her more but, as she turned into Yasuo to the community, the champion was ruined for me.

After the rework, I instantly fell in love with the champion's mechanics. Yeah it was disgusting, especially at first when your ult did like 700 damage level 6 and your shroud could stay for up to 15 seconds.

And I understand the big nerfs to her stats. She had a lot less base damage, health regen etc. which was necessary. I would argue she could've used more nerfs to some stats because her design makes her worth playing and banning

With 9.3 coming out she loses out on her healing, giving her a much different and hard early game. And the most iconic thing about her, the shroud that would drop tower agro. is removed along with some other nerf to it. This completely changes her play style and she'll never be satisfying to play. I know most people are happy about this cause no one has to deal with the champion anymore but consider me the 10% that wanted the shroud to stay. Or at least the healing, even the old Akali healed off her passive.

I'm mostly sad about the fact that I bought skins for her and played like 50 hours of blitz to get tokens so i could pay 20$ for the prestige edition. I'd be perfectly happy paying for champion skins if I enjoy playing the champ. But now I know I'll probably stop playing her. It IS my fault I know, I was the one who chose to buy the skins, but I feel like I was ripped off.

EDIT: I find it weird how they released her prestige skin within roughly a month before the big nerf

6 Comments

Skullthorn1/30/2019, 9:56:44 PM5 votes

Akali is a perfect example of how Riot never learns. Again and again we see basic shit that gameplay designers at Riot should understand by now being completely ignored or forgotten. Remember how summoner spells were proven to be extremely significant in beta and that Teleport has been borderline-core for most of top lane's existence purely because of how useful it is? Riot didn't, they released Zoe.

Remember when we saw that making a VGU for problematic to balanced champions without fixing the balance issues of the original version just pisses everyone off and tends to result in an overpowered abomination (Swain, Galio, Akali, Warwick and Irelia)? Riot doesn't.

The worst thing is that teams of employees work on these champions, yet no one puts their hand up to say "Er, maybe not letting cleanse get rid of drowsy as well as the slow is a bit counter-intuitive for the players" or "Remember how lane sustain has been a massive fucking problem? How about we don't give healing mechanics to over half our champions and reworks for the past 2 years"

I don't know who has the final say on champion design, whether it's the lead champion designer or someone else.

Regardless CertainlyT should be locked in a fucking basement and subsist only off of the mountains of salt he's responsible for.

Dracocrash1/30/2019, 10:04:58 PM5 votes

Funny isn't it, now that akali sold her skins, she gets nerfed, and vayne who just got a brand new skin, got a massive random buff, I wonder why?