The problem with Akali and why Riot hesitates to buff her

PhantomGG··2 votes·821 views

So while yes her lane phase is trash and while yes if she falls behind she is a worthless pick, but the problem is once she hits six and if she manages to break even with her enemy laner she simply has very little counter play with her all in, so how do we fix this?

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Maikal2 votes

Literally all they have to do is allow either her R or her E to proc Q. That's it. Was such a stupid change to remove the E proccing, and even more stupid that they didn't move it to R since their justification was "To weaker her laning phase since she could proc the mark on some top laners (Top lane was worse than mid for her too, which makes that justification even more stupid)"

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

Because she was too strong with THREE not one but THREE point-click dashes, which turned into 4 by the time you used your third,not to mention if you scored a kill or assist you got another.

It was pretty obvious how strong akali was with the free procs even if it meant gutting her to this state.

Maikal1 votes

Every champion has something that is "op" because that is what makes them interesting. Akali was by no means top tier or oppressive when they delivered those nerfs, she fell from that spot after the w rework. The range on her R was pretty ridiculous, so regardless of her spot I can understand wanting to tone that down, but to make a champion feel clunky and bad to play? That's just bad design, it made her E make no sense with the rest of her kit. It would be better if they just nerfed her damage or healing, not that she needed that either.

EcchiOtakuTM1 votes

They didn't tone her down, they gutted her by doing that nerf.

And she's in line for a rework anyways because she is outdated, riot been announced they're looking at her for a rework after the current projects are released.

I feel they'll probably do an assassin patch and hopefully imo they should include Akali, Evelynn, Katarina, Nocturne, Rengar, Warwick in it.

FacerollKatarina1 votes

She needs a rework

PhantomGG1 votes

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She needs a rework

yeah I agree her toolkit is basically "if you give me a lead I will murder you because math"

Hayaishi21 votes

By reworking her because right now buffing her is the same as putting her in the ban list.

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