Akali in Assassin Changes?
Hey, maybe I'm just out of the loop but I've heard a lot of different things about akali for the changes (I'm a huge akali player, she makes up like 90% of my games, over 200k mastery points on her)
- Is she going to be in the official assassin changes? Any red confirmation/guess?
- Is she getting a big rework or just a few small changes
- Can we please not make her q a skillshot? I feel that it destroys a lot of her identity as a champ that relies on 2-shotting a carry, w-ing out, then doing it again, and ulting past the frontline which requires you to have a clickshot q.
- Will her e fit her kit? (Before it could at least proc her q so it made sense, now it doesn't work in her kit)
- Can her w be more interactive? It doesn't need a buff, but it's a really unique ability that has so much potential but in its current state it is just countered by 75 gold and kinda in a niche spot.
- Can we bring back another q-proc? Even like q proccing itself or her ult. Her early game is beyond terrible and she basically is a nasus pre6 without some way to harass at all. Unless your opponents are really stupid you should either have to 100-0 or you can't do anything.
I think she's in a weird spot right now because she can't be buffed too hard (that would be a nightmare if she became meta because she is an assassin like zed but with even less counterplay but at the same time, that is what an assassin does. If you get in range of her ult (which isn't that big), and you aren't stacking mr and she's fed, that is a misplay. In the current meta assassins are either tanks or just bad mages, as Riot seems to dislike the general idea behind an assassin (destroy the carry with absolutely no counterplay, get out safely). I think that this method behind an assassin isn't really bad, as tank/defensive items exist in the game, peeling is a thing, and there are so many ways to deal with assassins (including the sheer fact that they have no health and if they fall behind they are useless) that they are completely worthless unless they get hella fed in the current meta.
I'm not looking for buffs (in fact, the only real buff not change I would ask for is #6), just would like to see her identity be a bit less Diana-esque but without a complete rework.
Feel free to add anything I missed/other suggestion in the comments, it's midnight here and I am half-asleep. A red would be cool too, just to walk through some of the proposed changes.