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Do not nerf Akali please. Please read why I want Akali buffs.

Xiao Suan Nai A·1/28/2020, 9:51:43 PM·1 votes·574 views

Akali has one of the lowest winrates right now in all elos because of the difficulty of playing this champion. She has high presence in pro play because of the players that can pilot her properly compared to the random solo queue player.

Right, any player can probably play Akali but to do anything with her, you require skill to play her. She isn’t a straightforward assassin champion that mashes all buttons and one shots.

Look at Diana. Uses Q and combines W/E and ult to one shot a target or one shot multiple targets because why not? She builds tanky AP items and can still one shot targets with a shield on an assassin champion. Diana can use her abilities to destroy a minion wave and roam.

Now look at Akali. She needs to get into melee range to use a Q, then run back out the circle to autoattack a target. She has to play her own minigame of run out the circle to kill someone slowly. Akali’s ultimate has 160 second cooldown for an assassin champion. It is probably the longest cooldown in the game. Akali is very squishy and she needs to get into dangerous range to do anything. Akali can only use Q two times in a minion wave, then proceed to auto attack the minions down one by one at 125 attack range. She has to use her 20 second cooldown shroud in a minion wave just to get some energy back. This hurts waveclear and roaming for an assassin champion.

All other assassin champions have proper waveclear while Akali does not.

Akali has her shroud which has been nerfed to the ground. 20 second cooldown at all ranks and the cooldown starts after the shroud ends. So basically with more points in her shroud, it hurts her more because of the longer duration meaning she has to wait longer to use shroud again. She can no longer do that bullshit of shroud under an enemy tower and proceed to kill them without taking tower aggro.

I want Akali buffs because I actually think she is weak right now. Disagree with me all you want.

Q should deal bonus damage to champions too at rank 5. Slightly lower ultimate cooldown because she is an assassin champion.

2 Comments

IP Masquerena1/28/2020, 10:10:04 PM3 votes

Get good or play another champion.

I'm tired of reading that toxic mentality you have there. "I'm not good, so make the champ easy for me to be able to stomp on her".

Jng Account1/28/2020, 10:11:03 PM2 votes

Akali has one of the lowest winrates right now in all elos because of the difficulty of playing this champion. She has high presence in pro play because of the players that can pilot her properly compared to the random solo queue player.

Irrelevant and slightly untrue, she is problematic in higher elos as well. We will get to the reason why.

Right, any player can probably play Akali but to do anything with her, you require skill to play her. She isn’t a straightforward assassin champion that mashes all buttons and one shots.

She autowins majority of melee matchups, which makes her toplane presence insufferable. Also mashing all buttons will do exactly same thing like with others, "one shot"(it takes slightly longer time, so it's not pure oneshot).

Look at Diana. Uses Q and combines W/E and ult to one shot a target or one shot multiple targets because why not? She builds tanky AP items and can still one shot targets with a shield on an assassin champion. Diana can use her abilities to destroy a minion wave and roam.

She also has very limited escape options, unlike Akali.

Now look at Akali. She needs to get into melee range to use a Q, then run back out the circle to autoattack a target. She has to play her own minigame of run out the circle to kill someone slowly. Akali’s ultimate has 160 second cooldown for an assassin champion. It is probably the longest cooldown in the game. Akali is very squishy and she needs to get into dangerous range to do anything. Akali can only use Q two times in a minion wave, then proceed to auto attack the minions down one by one at 125 attack range. She has to use her 20 second cooldown shroud in a minion wave just to get some energy back. This hurts waveclear and roaming for an assassin champion.

Yet, she is still problematic, simply bcs of her mobility and Q/passive. There is good reason she has "bad" wave clear.

All other assassin champions have proper waveclear while Akali does not.

Fizz, only wave clear is crucial spell that costs like ultimates. Lb, her escape/ingage is her only wave clear. Kass either needs to use his stacked E or ultimate, which can cost you life.

Akali has her shroud which has been nerfed to the ground. 20 second cooldown at all ranks and the cooldown starts after the shroud ends. So basically with more points in her shroud, it hurts her more because of the longer duration meaning she has to wait longer to use shroud again. She can no longer do that bullshit of shroud under an enemy tower and proceed to kill them without taking tower aggro.

Can't see what's wrong here.

I want Akali buffs because I actually think she is weak right now.

You can wish for them, but that's all, sorry.

You will either learn her or you have to switch to other champ.