Akali isn't even out yet
Holy shit. There are like 5 threads with 200 + upvotes for a champion that isn't even on pbe yet LOL The whole season is crap and you are worried about Akali. Never change league community.
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Maybe because hyper mobility and high burst damage is cancerous to play against? Just a thought.
This has nothing to do with gameplay.
The whole season is crap, maybe we don't want it to be even more crap with a busted ass champion?
This post is the exception, but the Gameplay Boards should still be removed
The problem is this:
- 99% of the community randomly follows the opinion of the 1%
- 1% of the community actually is aware how broken she will be and it's really not that hard to figure that one out:
- It's an hybrid champion
- It has more mobility than Irelia
- It has more base damage on her abilities than Irelia (that one is clearly noticable on the recent videos that came out)
- It seems that she isn't that depended on items to get this damage off. In one of the gameplay videos that where released someone bought
and 
on her. The team was ahead but it clearly didn't effect her damage all that much. - Even if she has the weakest earlygame from all champion. Their is nothing a botlane carry position can fixed. The fact that her base damage is so hugh I doubt it would be even that weak.
- Her sustain seems to be cut so that's something but the synergy of
seem to be flat out buffed with the high base damage so it might even be stronger than before.
Since she still needs to go through the PBE I think she will be fine if they get the numbers straight but as it is right now. In her current state she's going to have to be hotfixed on release and since the PBE isn't really the best place to be to figure out numbers for a champion. This is going to be a rough next patch.
I'm still worried about it tho since it seems that a lot of her power and current design is build arround her base damage. So it really feels like nerfing that will effect her entire kit. I'm not saying it's a design flaw since I haven't played her myself yet but with those mechanic it's hard to till how bad it will be.
Another thing I want to mention is that buildup for a possible tank Akali that clearly seems to be a problem. It's already show her damage doesn't seems to fall off when you building resistances. And the fact she can turret dive with her W she might become a problem for those situations. The only advantage is that unlike Ekko she hasn't have that much cc build in her kit. But I'm going to theorycraft something here:
- Glacial rune
Just these two items would probally be enouge to turret dive effectively. The more tanky she becomes the more turret shots she can take before switching on the cloud. Just think about a team with mainly single target damage. She just turn on the cloud and heal up with warmogs and than move back in the fight again. The fact that she get's a heal starting off with full energy she doesn't even have to regenerate to full health to get back in the fight. Have a champion that is so mobile that can soak so much damage could become yet another ballance nightmare.
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