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A suggestion for Akali

Devèstation·12/21/2014, 5:33:18 AM·1 votes·802 views

I've been thinking, and I obviously am not very experienced (Silver V here), but I think that they could implement an Akali change that would benefit everyone.

To start off, change her ultimate, or rather, the utility within. Instead of giving her a free charge with EVERY kill and assist she gets, put it on a stack system. For every 3 stacks she gets, she'll get another charge of her ult (2 stacks for a kill, 1 for an assist.) In response, we can increase the damage her ultimate deals by 35 per rank, and give it an energy cost. The end result would look a little something like THIS:

[Range: 800 | Cost: 1 charge and 30 / 25 / 20 energy | Static Cooldown: 2 / 1.5 / 1 second | Recharge Time: 30 / 22.5 / 15 | Magic damage: 135 / 255 / 335 (+60% AP)

Akali generates a charge of Essence of Shadow periodically and 2 stacks of Core of Shadow for every kill, and one for every assist. (3 Cores of Shadow will add a charge of Essence of Shadow), and can store up to 3 charges.

Active: Akali moves through the shadows to quickly dash to and strike the targeted enemy, dealing magic damage and consuming a charge of Essence of Shadow.]

Instead of THIS:

[RANGE: 800 | COST: 1 Charge | STATIC COOLDOWN: 2 / 1.75 / 1.5 | Recharge Time: 30 / 22.5 / 15 | Magic damage: 100 / 175 / 250 (+50% AP)

Akali generates a charge of Essence of Shadow periodically and upon kills or assists, and can store up to 3 charges.

Active: Akali moves through the shadows to quickly dash to and strike the targeted enemy, dealing magic damage and consuming a charge of Essence of Shadow.]

This would help out Akali do her actual job, which would be to kill the squishies, THEN help with the tanks and/or lower damage carries. It would also make her have to play more cautiously and be punished from attacking the wrong person, or wasting her ult.

10 Comments

Lord Dusteon12/21/2014, 5:41:14 AM1 votes

Soooooo you want to make her resets useless.

You increased her ult's base damages (which, since ~2/3rds of her damage actually comes from the Q proc + E, isn't saying much), and in return made her get no resets unless she kills 2 people and assists in another. Unless you're actually going to buff her for removing a large portion of her power that isn't going to work.

Devèstation12/21/2014, 5:45:48 AM1 votes

I was actually thinking about tacking on a part about increasing her AP scaling on her Q and her ult, but I thought that it would be a little bit of an overkill. Do you like the general change I made though, with some extra thought put into her damage?

Leti the Yeti12/21/2014, 6:25:03 AM1 votes

I think alot of champions have this issue of it works because it is this certain way... but then thats what makes the champion so problematic that if you to change it you make it "not work" which is also problematic ;l

if it makes sense to anyone

Support Evelynn12/21/2014, 6:57:24 AM1 votes

Akali as an assassin is actually pretty easy to control, especially from a tank's perspective. She's incredibly predictable and has nothing besides Zhonya's that really prevents her from being locked down.