Let's talk Akali (Mainly her E)

Gang··2 votes·426 views

It's been around a month since the Akali nerfs hit live now, and alot of people have been able to play around with it.

Fact is, it feels really clunky to use, and the combination with other nerfs have made it too much. There's been the proc nerf on her E, and a patch after, the cost of red trinketitem 3364 was reduced to 250g.

I've played 500+ Akali games in 2 seasons, and I've been ok with any nerfs that hit her before, but this changes the way she feels so much, and makes her gameplay and outplay potential so much worse.

She's only good in lower ranked games at the moment, where people make more mistakes and go out of position often.

Are there any plans of her E Proccing Q again? (Directed at Riot Balancing staff)

TL;DR : The undocumented change of red trinket upgrade costing 250 g now made akali even worse after the nerfs. E change could be reverted perhaps, to make the skill not utterly useless, and to give her a push in the right direction, since counterplay has been improved with the cost change.

3 Comments

B3ER1 votes

No, they don't want that happen and for good reason. As an Akali fan myself, I know that E proc was too strong. If I'm correct, Riot Jag is working on her, so we're probably looking at a rework or at the very least an E change.

Gang1 votes

E proc was strong, but you have to realise it came along with a 100 range nerf, and the red trinket cost reduce, which made her laning SO much harder and her outplay potential in lane alot less.

B3ER1 votes

Oh yeah, I fully agree with you. I was pretty pissed to see these changes knowing what they'd do to her. They mentioned that they've been looking to remove the E proc for a while, makes me think they got something in store for her. The current E takes from her power budget but gives nothing back in terms of play patterns. I hope they can create something nice there.

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