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Why The Akali Rework Sucks

J0H0·8/2/2018, 8:15:42 PM·7 votes·7,473 views

Passive - Not too bad, but it sucks so hard early game. That you may as well not have it.

Q - The reason q will never be good in it's current form is primarily because of it's range. Unless you try to run past the mellee minions, you will never reach a smart ranged champion with this ability. It's completely useless. Additionally, it does practically no damage.

W - Shroud does not make Akali 'unique.' It just makes her impossible to deal with if she's ahead, and irrelevant if she isn't. The weird little donut mechanic is shit. It does nothing. What they SHOULD do is have the shroud start out as big as the donut and slowly make it as small as the ring in the center. In addition to this the tower diving nature of the ability will make her more difficult to balance.

E - Needs to be easier to land. Straight up. Tiny projectile, easily dodged.

R - The automatic delay between the two parts of it is probably the worst part, it would be much better for there to be no delay, and that the first part of it has to be locked on a champion. That way she doesn't have completely stupid escape.

The fact that shroud was actually made better, to me, really shows Riots ignorance.

25 Comments

Glîtchy8/2/2018, 8:43:24 PM6 votes

the smoke screen is overloaded as hell, it needs to lose like 1-2 perks

Blump Dumpster8/8/2018, 9:40:54 PM4 votes

After ~100 games between the PBE and Live I can confirm the Akali rework is terrible, just look at her win rate.

Before you start lecturing me about how she's new and how she's a skill champ and all that bull crap you should take a look at the stats from other recent champion reworks and you'll see that NONE OF THEM EVEN CAME CLOSE TO THIS BAD.

All the people saying she's OP clearly have not spent any significant time playing her. They don't understand her mechanics and they're terrified by the fact that she can avoid a couple turret shots when in reality, negating a couple turret shuts is something most champs have the capacity to do.

For anyone wondering how to beat Akali 100% of the time, just wait for her to use her Q to kill a minion. After that she's all yours since she needs a full energy bar and a miracle to actually win a fight.

Eternal Torment8/3/2018, 12:19:13 AM4 votes

Your complain in a nutshell:

She sucks because she's harder than her previous version.

Got it.

Spoo8/3/2018, 3:50:49 PM3 votes

I'd agree, thematically she feels great. Numbers wise her damage feels incredibly sub-par, especially with how terribly her early game feels right now.

I understand she plays different. She's no longer dive burst dead. She's dive sit around in smoke and regen some energy while do nothing then reengaging skirmish. In a sense she plays more like fiora skirmish.

But I seriously think that style makes her laning phase incredibly difficult. Maybe moreso than the old akali. At least it feels lack luster when your basically having to blow energy trying to get in range just to clear wave against any ranged champion.

Her one major dive early on has a dive back so placing the smoke cloud in a spot where I'm not flat out traded feels impractical while waiting on the cd's to come back.

I don't. That's just my Q.E.D. I think riots doing a different buff strategy with her by making her weak and ramping her up, instead of their typical overpowered ramp down.

sexylord8/2/2018, 9:07:38 PM3 votes

akali went from big assassin to assassin with no dmg lmao

Linna Excel8/3/2018, 1:46:34 PM2 votes

This is a certainlyT champ, you need to main her for awhile to get good with her.

Phieldworker8/2/2018, 8:50:36 PM2 votes

So you want an easier to play Akali it sounds like?

Dope Solo8/2/2018, 10:04:44 PM2 votes

The E is good enough if not too good. You might think its hard to land, but the payoff is extraordinarily broken shit.

Sirsir8/3/2018, 1:57:58 PM1 votes

E is only hard to land at max range. And TBH it feels like its shorter than it actually is. IDK if its the indicator, or the actual range, or if it only casts the shuriken after the backflip, but it certainly doesn't reach its max range. Its indicator clearly hits the dragon from outside certain parts of the pit, lands IN the dragons ass, yet it doesn't hit...

W is actually way too strong. And it weakens turrets even more. (How long until riot (most likely CT) gives a champ an ability that converts a turret to your side? Then reworks them because the ult is useless cuz who gives af about turrets?) As long as it loses the 'obscure' bs and goes back to its old form of stealth its gonna be okay. Maybe shave the duration down some.

Otherwise she feels fine. Her problem is that shes not broken, where most of the rest of her class is

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Once they (hopefully) get toned down from cancer-burst shes probably going to be really strong. In the meantime shes a pretty solid bruiser

Tsuu8/10/2018, 11:41:23 PM1 votes

The point is why would u play Akali if u can oneshot faster with every single other assassin? [sg-lux-2]

TaiyoMoon2/12/2019, 12:56:25 PM1 votes

Wow, my eyes never read so many bullshit about a topic lol. I'm talking now that akali has been really nerfed, no still life at almost full energy with Q, no avoiding turrets hits when in W. This nerf really sucks and i still win my lane...I'm sad for this nerf, now akali is almost useless, but before this nerf she was really op, i've been played her for 5 years.