"In the meantime, you can probably stop permabanning [Akali]." but why I still do.

As we witnessed Akali's one year over-due change land, we have told each other that we now have an extra ban available, but still it is not wise to let her through into pick phase. Such a hard nerf on such a bad winrate champ, Akali has been Leblanc'd and Olaf'd without any even CONSIDERATION for compensation buff.

We hated playing against her because she had next-to-no weakness, but now we WILL hate playing with her as she has next-to-no lane sustain and doesn't scale hard enough to become a relevant threat lategame. Save your LP with a ban that will help your teammates pick the right champion: anything but Akali.