Her changes made her extremely weak this patch and now she has buffs on PBE so next patch she won't be as bad. So basically she is going to be back where she was before only a lot more clunky and worse to play for her mains. Bruiser Akali still works just not as well as before and Assassin Akali is just flat out worse even with these buffs. What did the changes accomplish exactly?
Big Lincoln1 votesmost of my issues besides her ult's sad ratio is her passive
they should switch the damage and heal and improve her AA frame. at least for those 2 attacks let her be able to hit in quick succession like 
Akali is SO HOT2 votesThey should also revert her shroud. Really dumb change
DeathTheHorseman2 votesAll the buffs are in the wrong direction....
30% more AP heal on the AA that you wasted 90% of the time (cause you use it at full HP when starting a fight)
20% more AP ratio on the E that you use 1 max 2 times in a fight (makes her burst stronger but her DPS is still crap)
Meanwhile her ULTIMATE does 50-70 damage at lvl6 (depending on how much AP you managed to get)....
They should put these 20% AP on the ult not on her E....
I like the shroud energy reduction because they practically forced us to use it in every fight (cause DPS and sustain are non existant)
Screw the changes they should atleast make her shield when she overheals.
I am sick of going in and diying instantly cause my sustain is non existant for 4 sec after I attacked their ADC (who flashed away and I couldn't attack again because of the ridiculous CD between dashes)
P.S. I am a diamond playing Flex among silvers and even when I snowball my lane (because the laner is extremely bad and not cause akali has anything going for her) I still can't kill more than 2 people.
It's literally impossible to kill a 3rd person when forced to wait for Q cooldowns to do any damage.
Fck they don't even buy MR and if they do a fight goes on for 10 sec where i have to hide for 8 in shroud and proc 5 Qs to kill someone (Pss I usually die)
NightWander1 votesAgree, the pre-season update make her totally change, i know that Akali is super strong at 11 to 16 level, enemy just see the Q and R then he die XD, but that is base on the stable early peiord, and if you even die once at early period, that is very very hard to grow up again. I think this update is develop the early period akali, but i think is useless, nobody want try get first blood or kill without the skill which let her close to enemy, even with Thunder monarch, is very danger to do that because enemy jungle will gank. So then like the snowball, let team worse and worse, so now Akali have two end: play really really good and carry whole team or the ATM for enemy.
The vampire.The soul of the Akali is that wonderful passive which before update, you can change QWER whatever you want but DON'T CHANGE PASSIVE!This is the best fit passive for Akali. Now sometimes i have a very very arkward time that you almost die and almost can kill 3 people, and shadow dance have small damage and cd is too long that i even can't catch teemo, and then lee kill me so easily, in this battle i even don't have any chance to let me gain the HP, i use R, then E, and i die, so i can't use the passive because i don't have time to finish a basic attack, If i in 6.21, my R have the enough damage to kill one and I can use it again because CD is short and then E, so I can't die because how enemy can kill the almost full HP's Akali.
My friend play Katalina, we have a same question: the damage output is so slow, and we think that don't change anything is better XD, these two heros is pretty balance before the update, akali is hard to keep stable in early period and gank in middle period, katalina is hard to find a perfect point and position to enter the group battle and have a good damage output
Pommel Knight1 votesSame for fizz honestly, 100% of his kit was dodge able before and now he has 0 reliable dmg source. W takes too long to wind up. Q and e are on too long cdrs even with 45% cdr. You just get stranded and die if you don't burst them down now.
Zetto2 votesGood. Now if you fall behind you won't still be able to 100-0 people with a rotation of basic spells, two of which are dashes.
Elisheva1 votesI honestly prefer the new akali... o.o I never really played the old very much, but the new one just feels a lot more solid.
1011001110002 votesHow can you comment on the old Akali when you openly state "I never really played the old very much".
Akali used to be MUCH more fluid than this iteration of her right now.
Brimaz The King1 votesricklessabandon noted he has a set of follow up Akali buffs that he is working on and we should see them in an upcoming PBE update - he later added buffing AP rations on passive heal + crescent strike and lowing cost of twilight shroud. So be happy.
Akali is SO HOT2 votesThat's my argument though. Number buffs aren't going to change anything. She's still gonna always be strong or weak depending on her numbers like before, but now she feels really bad to play.
Belisarius091 votesTweaking the numbers and giving her buffs in all the wrong places does nothing to solve the issue at hand. Her new playstyle isn't fun. That's what the OP was saying.
Akali is SO HOT1 votesyeah
Catastrop1 votesI don't play much Akali anymore but I think wasting heal at full hp should be addressed. At the very least, allow it to "overload" and give a shield instead if you're full HP. Kind of like Bloodthirster.