I am tired of Akali
I am tired of this spamming gap closer/self healing assassin.
The argument is always "OH WELL SHE HAS TO PLAY RISKY"
Okay, what is risky about an assassin that can turn invisible with ease and thus unable to be focused in team fights or 1v1 without an AoE, or how that same assassin has self healinstalled within its arsenal.
A self heal
Get rid of that self heal. It's bad enough her cooldown reductions are smaller than the brains of those working in the balance department, but with the fact she is an assassin with easy to play mechanics that gives her perseverance in a lane? That is a load of bullshit.
And don't tell me that her pre-6 shit is what makes her balanced. There are plenty of champions that have had shitty pre-6 like old Vladimir and yet they still got hit hard by the nerf bat.
Not only that, but pre-6 in comparison to a long game is nothing more than a fraction of the game and is an idiotic excuse to justify how broken this champion really is.
Plus her resource. I hate energy as a resource cause it might as well be no resource at all due to how easily it regenerates and how manageable it is compared to mana where you would have to buy items to keep it maintained.
These are the nerfs I would hit this stupidly broken champion that the Balance Team and Circle Jerkers of Akali Mains would rage over and make everyone else bloody happy.
Shadow Dance
Cut her range by 400.
No longer can her Essence of Shadow be stored from an assist.
That is all I would ask for Shadow Dance since reducing her damage would be meaningless since she is an assassin and her role is to do damage. But 800 range is a ridiculous amount for someone who can literally spam it and has the same ideology + more in comparison to Xin Zhao's Audacious Charge for example. The argument here is always "she takes risk though" but this is not the case with Twilight Shroud as part of her arsenal and the fact that 800 range is very easy to use on a wandering minion or monster or another champion to escape with.
DISCIPLINE OF MIGHT: Akali has a natural 6% (+1% per 6 bonus AD) spell vamp removed
As I said before, assassins should not have self-healing as there are plenty of items that already offer that and it is ludicrous to give an assassin like Akali that actually benefits from AD more healing. This is cutting the risk of playing an assassin to begin with.
It's these two abilities that make Akali a broken assassin. And I'm sure there's a lot more things wrong with this poorly made champion that is literally a spam machine with little to no skill. Although it wouldn't be the first time a bunch of circle jerking mains defended an easy champion (Riven mains).
Hopefully one day the balance team is replaced and the circle jerkers just die off in a hole somewhere so champions can be correctly balanced again.

Please gap close to me little girl, hue hue hue...
"She has so much sustain!" Too bad you can't burst her, I mean it's not like assassins and mages can burst people. I mean, that would kick the shit out of her sustain, especially when her abilities are ALL on cooldown.