A meaningful change idea to akali's shroud

Goddamn Heretic·11/27/2018, 8:25:16 PM·1 votes·840 views

A lot of people are annoyed by her shroud. They feel it is too strong because it offers no compromise, and is a bit of a "fuck you" to anybody trying to fight her. it not only offers an unimpeachable stealth, but rewards her with extra energy as soon as she uses it.

Please understand that new Akali is balanced around her shroud, so the part where she cannot be revealed does have to stay. However:

What if the duration of the shroud was decreased under turrets, and whenever she gets hit with something that would otherwise reveal her, such as ignite. This would force the player to use it more purposefully instead of just a free escape that lets her wait around at her leisure for an opportunity. With these changes, she will be forced to use it or lose it, which is a less mentioned philosophy with many other assassins such as Zed, talon, and ekko, who only have short windows to use their most important abilities. If zed goes back to his ult shadow, he cannot go back in, and if he misses his first round of skillshots, his ult is wasted. If talon can't choose whether to escape or dive after he ults, he'll most likely be a sitting duck. If ekko ults too early he will have wasted the health regen, or find himself in the wrong place.

Akali's shroud is her main playmaking tool. She should be forced to make plays

3 Comments

Oleandervine11/27/2018, 8:34:12 PM1 votes

The part where she cannot be revealed does not have to stay. I understand she's built around Shroud, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't follow literally every single rule about stealth that every other champion follows when it comes to being in turret range. Turrets revealing and allowing targetability of invisible foes in their range to me is an unbreakable rule of the game that shouldn't be violated by anyone. I get it though, fine, they want her to make plays under turrets. Then make her initial drop of the smoke cloud briefly flicker her so it can break turret fire (akin to Kled dismount) and allow that to be her outplay tool. But this thing about not being targetable AT ALL under turrets is complete bullshit, and there are ultimates in this game that do far, far less than that, and they're saddled with massive cooldowns.

mack911211/27/2018, 8:43:19 PM1 votes

Let's see what nerfs hit her before we make any opinions

Catffeine11/27/2018, 8:45:42 PM1 votes

She's getting nerfed in 8.24. I'd say wait until we see what comes then, and repost if it's still relevant.

Source: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/WbpEfUMs-tweet-from-maplenectar-list-of-nerfs-for-824