Summary of complaints against reworked Akali

japhib·7/18/2018, 4:08:35 PM·7 votes·3,094 views

Her W allowing her to sit under an enemy tower for 5+ seconds at rank 1 without taking damage is incredibly powerful, and should probably be removed.
Her E re-activation range is insanely long and should probably be shortened to about the same as a Lee Sin Q2.
(Her E re-activation allowing her to proc her passive for free. Probably not as big a deal as these other ones.)
Her vast mobility with E and R, along with her phenomenal defensive capabilities with W, will make her unstoppable in the hands of a pro, meaning she'll be gutted (and therefore unplayable for normal players) until the problematic mechanics are removed.

Did I miss anything?

7 Comments

Krully7/18/2018, 6:05:47 PM2 votes

also her VO is another sassy/ ''bad-ass'' personality...

Illabethe7/18/2018, 10:01:21 PM2 votes

She is visible under turrets.... just not targetable. She is extremely vulnerable if she attempts crap like this.
Who cares? It's extremely hard to hit from a safe distance.
Who cares?
Mobility requires hits, and more importantly, an allotment of Energy that gets consumed REALLY fast.

GodlyBane7/19/2018, 6:59:44 AM2 votes

honestly, i havent had any trouble with her so far, even a 17/5 akali i could deal with, shes easy work

k0legacy7/18/2018, 4:55:43 PM1 votes

removing all risk of diving a lane opponent at level 3 by giving her a special stealth with turret immunity is really inappropriate. The only real obstacle for assassins to solo kill someone is vision and turrets, but they're removing that. Might as well make the whole map the jungle. That, paired with her insane mobility, gives her too much power. The joke has been made since the trailer, but she really did leave the "school of balance".

Teridax687/18/2018, 9:16:39 PM1 votes

I'd add that her combination of mechanics, i.e. her extreme mobility, on-demand invisibility, and fairly generous spell ranges, is likely going to make her extremely annoying to face as an immobile champion, as she'd be able to run literal circles around them and be extremely difficult to catch at all times. More generally, she appears to give herself a lot of agency, but very little to her opponent.