GOOD LEAVE HER THAT WAY for at least 1-2 patches Give people time to get used to her new skill oriented kit THEN decide whether or not she needs buffs/changes
Don't hotfix her because her winrate is low Give it a few weeks before we Aatrox her
LeftyRaydy13 votesnah lets give her a big nerf cause I never want to see a Shroud again.
DuskDaUmbreon12 votes38% is too low, though.
A small buff in the meantime (not large-scale, just a tiny one to her armor/mr/hp or whatever) wouldn't be the worst of ideas.
invisiblecat132 votesThis is exactly the way Riot thinks when they see winrates of new champions Aatrox's winrate was low on his release, and riot gave him a TINY buff and his winrate skyrocketed We just need to wait and see
Akali is SO HOT34 votesThe Aatrox buffs were far from tiny. He got hotfixed twice in one patch with substantial buffs almost immediately after release.
Pika Fox2 votesAatrox NEEDED the buffs. The nerfs, for the most part, took power out that wasnt put in.
Akali likely needs the same.
Design wise, you want your champ to be a bit too good on release, and round out the champ taking power out as people get better. If the champ is just straight too weak, youll get no useful data other than needs buffs.
Beacon Academy3 votesWhy would you want your champion to be too good and get nerfed to feeling relatively worse?
Thats terrible planning.
I'd rather be weak or decent on release and receive QoL buffs for 5-6 years cough
cough
Pika Fox1 votesWorks much better for devs, as it allows them better information to fine tune whats needed.
SpecterVonBaren5 votesAfter the boards and reddit squealed about how trash he was.
SugeMinPikk1 votesShe's bad for a while then gets nudged up to around 50% winrate over the course of several patches 
Besides, look at blade. Having no trouble making her work. A champion is truly garbage if blade struggles on it.
DuskDaUmbreon1 votesYou do realize there is a middle ground between "overbuffing" and "Waiting 2 months before we change them", right?
SugeMinPikk2 votesThat middle ground doesn't exist for riot, evidently xd
Elite4Runner10 votesThe problem with this logic is, if a new champion, or a champion who has been significantly changed/reworked has a low winrate, they are not likely to be played/mastered. Riot needs champions to be played in order to identify what aspects of a champion are too strong or too weak. The PBE does not accomplish this because there is no honest ranking system, and characters are not in beta long enough for them to really be mastered. The function of the beta environment is to be sure that the character functions properly.
invisiblecat127 votesAkali's playrate is still really high though
Elite4Runner4 votesIt is only the second day.
My point is, Riot prefers that she is strong, or even overpowered, as opposed to weak .. or even balanced.
A low winrate is bad for testing purposes because the community generally places a lot of stock in things like that. If a champion has a very low winrate, players are unlikely to even try to play or learn them because they prefer to win games.
Tobykachu6 votesThis logic is killing the game though. Not only are they releasing more and more champions with toxic and frustrating to play against kits, but now we have to deal with them being completely bonkers too?
Elite4Runner1 votesThis is not a new concept. It isn't killing the game. They have done this as long as I've been playing.
Tobykachu3 votesExcept newer champions have much more frustrating kits to play against. Look no further than Zoe and Camille
Andrey03451 votesAkali's playrate is still really high though
sry can't stop playing her
Beacon Academy1 votesIf it takes OPOP stats to make a champion want to be played, then the maker of the kit should be disappointed in themselves.
Elite4Runner1 votesThere are 141 champions. ...
Beacon Academy1 votesAnd? That has nothing to do with making a kit and character that people can find enjoyable.
Unless you play all 141 champions each day.
Elite4Runner1 votesDid you even read what I said earlier?? The whole point is for Riot to gather information on the champion's balance by having players play that champion frequently, giving them data to identify strengths and weaknesses, while taking into account a player's mastery of that champion (their pickrate with that champion) .. So it does matter because NO, most people do not play 141 champions every day, which is exactly why there needs to be an incentive for player to pick THIS ONE champion out of the 141 champions that they have the choice to pick from. Even if you look at the frequency of champions picked, there are champions who are so rarely picked because they are not strong in the meta. Think about the champions that you rarely see currently. A lot of them have low WINRATES so they have low PICKRATES.
It doesn't matter if they have an enjoyable kit if people are not likely to win with them because people have a habit of playing to win, instead of playing for fun. Sad but true.
Beacon Academy1 votesThen let me ask you this:
"Why does a champion have to be rebalanced with nerfs or buffs right after their release?"
Elite4Runner1 votesI answered this already. The Public Beta Environment is meant to ensure that a champion's kit functions properly. It is not possible for Riot to get an accurate sense of the character's strengths and weaknesses when played competitively. This can only be evaluated after the champion has been released to live servers. The more this character is played, the more data they are able to collect, and the more accurately they are able to move the champion closer to balance.
BLACK REALM GOD6 votesI've gotten used to her. she's not god awful, but I honestly feel her kit needs a few numbers slightly adjusted around. she's too feast or famine right now.
what i've learned to do is aim for first blood on a super squishy opponent.
edit
but i agree to waiting at least through 8.17 before patching her.
DKM Bismarck1 votesI don't think her damage is the problem, as far as I know her base stats are quite low compared to old Akali. But I also just don't think Akali is even remotely weak or in need of any buffs at all right now, she's only been out for like 2 days and she is very hard as far as I can tell.
Ryrynounet1 votesTbh I got good games with akali but my problem is the early cd on the ult since you mostly rely on it to be able to gap close efficiency or to pick-up kills and for me to be able to play well akali it's needed for the player to know what to do with her. I think her winrate will raise soon even without buffs
Ultîma1 votesShe's feast or famine with her classic Gunblade AP build. She's actually very consistent as a top lane bruiser. I don't think Riot should touch her at all, if anything she's actually super oppressive in melee matchups.
BLACK REALM GOD2 votesShe's feast or famine with her classic Gunblade AP build. She's actually very consistent as a top lane bruiser. I don't think Riot should touch her at all, if anything she's actually super oppressive in melee matchups.
no. she's super oppressive against vayne and teemo. i'd argue that she's not too bad against tanks and fighters. they typically have higher armor/magic resist and hp/hp regen.
not always, but usually. with the 8.16 tank changes i doubt she'll survive in top. she's too easy to destroy with 1 single ability.
TheInnocentdevil3 votesIt's not even really damage thats the problem, her kit has awkward issues. Her energy cost on her q is really high and her regen is really low, so when you factor in how long it takes to get the heal from her q, it ends up being like 5-6 health a second. Then her q super short range and makes it really hard for her to deal with most mages, or anyone with aoe really. She's also super feast or famine.
Real Sexy Yoona3 votesThank God, after reading the title, I thought you were about to complain and ask for buffs.
I agree on waiting at least 2-3 weeks before making adjustments. I mean, she might not need any
Skorch2 votesI dont like your tone... but i agree
Sugarlicious2 votesI love going vs Akali as Lissandra, it always makes me lol when they use her E right as I move in front of my turret. They are so clumsy with the E, it's a joy to watch them fail it xD What I did notice, though, is that her Q has a surprisingly short range. She's pretty much not even a threat to most mages with a decent cc.
Quort1 votesI just played Lissandra into Akali the other day and at Level 2 she landed an E and took out like 70% of my HP with E Auto Q Electrocute... I was really surprised. x_x
FixHealsRemoveGW2 votesWell, you could just stop banning new champions, then their winrate would stabilize much faster.
[slayer-jinx-wink]
CURSEÐ REVENANT2 votesShe needs her sustain changed. Before rework, you sustained in lane so that you could put pressure the enemy laner through multiple trades. She was also able to sustain in all in fights as a sort of drain tank type bruiser thing. Now her sustain is pretty shitty. Other than her sustain and energy usage i think she is fine.
Last Breàth2 votesidc about the others but i like her that way she is no changes needed imo the players cant adapt to her reworked gameplay or they suck
Power Cosmic2 votesSounds perfect, I like her how she is, dont buff.
inplane2 votesSo many champs have suffered from the "New Champion Syndrome." I'm surprised Riot and the community haven't taken a hint yet. At this point, we shouldn't need topics like these to point us in the right direction.
lolipopevelynn2 votesdiana litterally does what old akali did, and diana right now is simply better than new akali because of it. new akali isnt bad, she just requires alot of set up compared to just Q+Ring someone to death. she needs to connect her entire kit of abilities to burst someone, but once people learn that she can just set up while in shroud she wont be able to be 1v1ed.
Attticus Finch2 votesIf god is real and merciful she'll stay at a 38%wr for the duration of the game's lifespan.
I am bIack2 votesIsn't her winrate low though because inexperienced players are trying her and there is a learning curve for Akali? So it would imply to be able to successfully "master" Akali, you'd have to play a set amount of games to get a feel for the champion with combos, etc.
It wouldn't make sense to just outright buff her with so little time to accustom to her playstyle/abilities/combos.
So uh.. yeah leave it that way xD
Anatera1 votesOr, you know, Riot can actually TRY and aim for 50%?
Daddy Ants16 votesOr, you know, Riot can actually TRY and aim for 50%?
Or, you know.
Riot can stop giving Training wheel buffs and give people a CHANCE TO LEARN THE KIT.
She's just been given an entirely new kit.
No one is gonna learn it overnight.
Anatera1 votesOr, you know.
Riot can stop giving Training wheel buffs and give people a CHANCE TO LEARN THE KIT.
She's just been given an entirely new kit.
No one is gonna learn it overnight.
Not really saying they will, but the onus is not entirely on the players and shouldn't be treated as such by dumping it in their lap.
Daddy Ants4 votesNot really saying they will, but the onus is not entirely on the players and shouldn't be treated as such by dumping it in their lap.
They said on Twitter that they are hotfix nerfing Fizz on Monday and assessing Akali.
They should leave her alone for the next 2-3 weeks.
Give people including her mains a chance to fully learn her new kit.
IF after that time they are still struggling then give Akali slight buffs.
No one wants a repeat of 
.
Anatera2 votesThey said on Twitter that they are hotfix nerfing Fizz on Monday and assessing Akali.
They should leave her alone for the next 2-3 weeks.
Give people including her mains a chance to fully learn her new kit.
IF after that time they are still struggling then give Akali slight buffs.
Going full Training wheels mode and buffing a new champion/rework shortly after release leads to Aatrox or Ornn situations where the champ has to be nerfed repeatedly due to being overbuffed.
They did it to Kai'Sa as well and she had to be nerfed repeatedly.
Or maybe they could just do both? By giving her small incremental changes, while the community gets used to her? It's not hard, there are plenty other games that do it. It's called active observation, as opposed to wait they are currently doing, which is either "wait and see" or "pointless unnecessary panic."
Daddy Ants3 votesOr maybe they could just do both? By giving her small incremental changes, while the community gets used to her? It's not hard, there are plenty other games that do it. It's called active observation, as opposed to wait they are currently doing, which is either "wait and see" or "pointless unnecessary panic."
They shouldn't be giving new champions/reworks any buffs for the first 2 or so weeks.
Win rates are low because players are learning the kit and play style, not because the champion's strength is low.
Anatera2 votesThey shouldn't be giving new champions/reworks any buffs for the first 2 or so weeks.
Win rates are low because players are learning the kit and play style, not because the champion's strength is low.
I said small. Small changes.
mikemcparty3 votesHow about this? No...