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Akali is SO HOT·Feb 21, 2017·42 votes·2,671 views

Exhaust reduces attack speed by 30%, reduces movement speed by 30%, reduces armor and mr by 10, and reduces damage dealt by 40%.

Just let that sink in.

70 Comments

MissingKayoFeb 21, 201735 votes

And some people still manage to fail to kill an Exhausted champion.

Let that sink in.

SzGamer227Feb 21, 201711 votes

Exhaust is more about shutting down the initial burst of a damage heavy champion so you still have the firepower to focus them down. Flat 10 reduction to armor and MR doesn't make a huge difference when it comes to dealing damage. Exhaust is about the insane damage disables than the movement speed or defense reduction.

ModCaptainMårvelousFeb 21, 201729 votes

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What does it want this time?

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20172 votes

Best comment i've seen in a while!!! Have my upvote!

ItsOrvalFeb 21, 20172 votes

How long have you been waiting to use this?

noxus is opFeb 21, 20171 votes

took me like ten minutes but i finally got it.

LadyRenlyFeb 21, 201721 votes

can we stop the exhaust circlejerk? as if assassins dont have enough freelo from items and champs already, now they want to go after exhaust?

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20172 votes

Personaly, i want a Zhonya's circlejerk, i don't give half a shit about exhaust.

NineTailedMysticFeb 21, 20173 votes

Item's already almost garbage, save the active.

RebonackFeb 21, 20179 votes

Solution: Make Cleanse strong enough to be an attractive option.

KilanostFeb 21, 20178 votes

I've never understood why it reduces attack speed AND damage by 40%. It seems to unfairly affect aa oriented champions more than ability oriented champions as a 40% AS reduction on top of the damge reduction constituted a double-whammy so to speak.

As far as I'm concerned, if they just took out the AS part and left everything else, we'd be approaching a much more balanced summoner spell.

NotCounterFeb 21, 20173 votes

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I've never understood why it reduces attack speed AND damage by 40%. It seems to unfairly affect aa oriented champions more than ability oriented champions as a 40% AS reduction on top of the damge reduction constituted a double-whammy so to speak.

As far as I'm concerned, if they just took out the AS part and left everything else, we'd be approaching a much more balanced summoner spell.

i dont know why you got downvoted but you are right, cutting someone's damage is also reducing an auto attackers damage equally as long as true damage isn't involved

ClementineFeb 21, 20178 votes

yawn assassin mains crying about exhaust again

Dasdi96Feb 21, 20176 votes

We kind of need it for the lethality meta.

DoktorKaiserFeb 21, 20176 votes

Exhaust is the single counterplay you have against assassins in this meta. Without it, they would have, and I mean this in every sence of the word, ZERO COUNTERPLAY.

Let that sink in...

Handy Sandy Feb 21, 20173 votes

It helped against the old assassins with little to no counterplay for the average player.

Akali is SO HOTFeb 21, 20175 votes

Which was back in Season 3

Yaśuo MainFeb 21, 20174 votes

annnnnd lethality on assassins do not exist now

Akali is SO HOTFeb 21, 20178 votes

Lethality on Assassins isn't overpowered. It's stupidly good on ADCs and some spellcasters like Jayce. AD Assassins are still pretty garbo excluding Talon. Just the Anti Assassin circlejerk finding an excuse to cry.

WimbledofyFeb 21, 20173 votes

no, its abused just as much on assassins as it is on adcs.

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20171 votes

At least Assassins need to get in melee range and/or hit skillshots. ADCs are full point and click from 500+ range.

WimbledofyFeb 21, 20172 votes

except the adc's you are talking about don't build lethality. Only point and click adc champ that uses lethality is miss fortune, but her ult is still sorta a skillshot. Quinn doesn't count because she's broken.

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20171 votes

So, Draven, Jhin, Lucian and others, don't build lethality? Then what adcs build lethality and why do people cry about them?

WimbledofyFeb 21, 20171 votes

Jhin's entire kit uses skillshots. Draven isn't an easy champ. Lucian has less than 500 range. And I think the only other adc that builds lethality that you didn't mention is varus, who also heavily relies on skillshots.

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20171 votes

Jhin's Only skillshots are his W and his ult. His main damage sources are his Q and AAs. Draven's difficulty doesn't change the fact that his main damage source is his AA. Lucian's AA range is 500. Varus relies on his AAs and Q which has a ridiculous range, hitbox AND damage. So, your point?

WimbledofyFeb 21, 20171 votes

heck i thought lucian was less than 500, but my point still stands for the rest of the champs.

VasilisGreenFeb 21, 20171 votes

their main damage is on AAs, and those are point and click. so, that alone invalidates your claims.

WimbledofyFeb 21, 20171 votes

but it didn't since you said "ADC's are FULL point and click damage" which isn't true. You made it seem as if assassins required this big feat of skill in order to do damage while adc's don't have to do anything. The whole reason these champs build lethality is because their main damage is NOT from AAs, if it was they would be building crit/as/ad. Otherwise we'd see champs like jinx caitlyn and tristana building lethality.

VasilisGreenFeb 22, 20171 votes

Well, lethality helps all kinds of physical damage, spells and AAs alike. But if you solely rely on AAs then crit is better. Thing is, Crit Draven, Crit Lucian, And crit Jhin will outdamage lethality, especialy Draven and jhin because draven has his Q AA steroid and Jhin has his 4th shot and. Lucian will also abuse his passive which can crit normaly. So yeah, personaly i would build crit on them. There's nothing more satisfying than a Draven 2-hitting the enemy ADC. I miss season 5 man... :'(

NineTailedMysticFeb 21, 20171 votes

Zed seems to be finding success. 17% PR, 50.5% WR, 30% BR. Not Talon OP though.

Acheron16Feb 22, 20171 votes

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Lethality on Assassins isn't overpowered. It's stupidly good on ADCs and some spellcasters like Jayce. AD Assassins are still pretty garbo excluding Talon. Just the Anti Assassin circlejerk finding an excuse to cry.

On SOME adcs, mainly caster ones.

Try to play Vayne in this meta.

FawkseaFeb 21, 20173 votes

Nobody bitched about it til people started using it cus every other summoner spell was nerfed, like im sorry this thing to counter high damage dealers that both teams can take is overpowered?? i never understood complains about summoner spells, like its not like an item your fave champ cant use or anything, literally everyone can use summoner spells, yet they nerf every other summoner spell

SnowFallFeb 21, 20173 votes

Morgana Q root is 3 seconds and everyone thinks that's okay

FantasySniperFeb 21, 20172 votes

And somehow Yasuo still kills me.

Let that sink in.

WolfeurFeb 21, 20172 votes

Last time Exhaust received changes was v4.5…

Guys, are you only realizing now??

FooDangFeb 21, 20172 votes

A diver/assassin main complaining about exhaust. Thats cute.

Akali is SO HOTFeb 22, 20171 votes

You should try it. Being exhausted every single fight because the enemy team took double exhaust makes for some fun gameplay.

LauchmelderFeb 22, 20171 votes

Getting deleted by an assassin every teamfight isn't fun either.

Akali is SO HOTFeb 22, 20171 votes

If you're getting deleted by an Assassin every teamfight in the current meta then you and/or your team is bad.

LauchmelderFeb 23, 20171 votes

That's not an argument.

Assassins can't be balanced. If they're strong they instagib people without counterplay. If they're considered ok they're weak in reality.

If you'd give an assassin the stats of a mage/marksman you'd literally break the game. The mage might have been balanced that way, but the upfront burst assassins need in their kit to function would be OP without worse than avg stats.

Look at LeBlanc and tell me that she's a balanced champion.

Look at Zed and tell me that he isn't weak (and through that actually fun to play against)

SplicketyLickFeb 21, 20172 votes

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Akali is SO HOTFeb 22, 20171 votes

tfw that's what their designed to do.

FooDangFeb 22, 20171 votes

tfw theres counterplay to instadeletion designed into the game

Akali is SO HOTFeb 22, 20171 votes

That's not counterplay. That's rendering a champion useless by clicking on them.

FooDangFeb 23, 20171 votes

Pretty sure theres a bigger impact in exhausting an Akali/Talon/Zed/Rengar than a Janna/Alistar/Maokai/Nautalis. Exhaust isnt effective against every champ.