Akali needs a buff.

Guiss·Dec 26, 2018·11 votes·3,413 views

43% avg win rate, the lowest in league. 6% avg ban rate, the highest in league. The recent nerf has made her shroud almost useless. The new followthrough change has ruined the potential for akali to be viable.

"newFOLLOWTHROUGH Targeted abilities and uncancellable basic attacks (ex. Nasus's Q - Siphoning Strike are no longer canceled when Akali stealths or re-stealths"

Her kit encourages stealth and re-stealthing. With these new changes an adc like Twitch can just have attack-move on, and shoot the Akali without fail. Its impossible to play "high risk, high reward" champion anymore.

15 Comments

BeatzBoyFTWDec 26, 20184 votes

When your champion has a 6% ban rate, a buff is not what that champion needs.

DuskDaUmbreonDec 26, 20183 votes

When you claim banrate is the only indicator of balance, you should not be talking about balance.

"BUT HER BANRATE WAAAH!" Who gives a fuck? She's a fairly new champion with a slightly annoying mechanic who isn't even playable if you don't OTP her. Champions should not be balanced off of whether or not the community is being stupid about them, they should be balanced off their actual strength.

BeatzBoyFTWDec 26, 20182 votes

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When you claim banrate is the only indicator of balance, you should not be talking about balance.

"BUT HER BANRATE WAAAH!" Who gives a fuck? She's a fairly new champion with a slightly annoying mechanic who isn't even playable if you don't OTP her. Champions should not be balanced off of whether or not the community is being stupid about them, they should be balanced off their actual strength.

So you're saying Yorick & Garen deserved to get shit on even though almost no one played them?

DuskDaUmbreonDec 26, 20181 votes

If they were too strong, yes.

With balance, there's basically only two numbers that matter - winrate and winrate by games played. PIckrate just shows popularity, banrate just shows frustration. Winrate shows overall success, and winrate by games played shows if it's just a lot of mains driving up the winrate, if the champion has too high of a baseline effectiveness, or is too strong when mastered, etc...

(Granted, actual balance is more nuanced than that. It could be a specific rune or item, a build, or any number of things. But breaking it down to winrate and winrate by games played is the most straightforward way to put it that leaves the least room for confusion).

Who Fed RuDec 26, 20182 votes

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When you claim banrate is the only indicator of balance, you should not be talking about balance.

"BUT HER BANRATE WAAAH!" Who gives a fuck? She's a fairly new champion with a slightly annoying mechanic who isn't even playable if you don't OTP her. Champions should not be balanced off of whether or not the community is being stupid about them, they should be balanced off their actual strength.

"slightly annoying"

DuskDaUmbreonDec 26, 20181 votes

Compared to her last iteration it's only ever so slightly more annoying.

Compared to a lot of other shit on old and new champions it's only slightly annoying.

Warlord RhinarkDec 26, 20183 votes

Remove her damn True Stealth mechanic and her W just restoring half of her Energy bar for free and then we can talk buffs.

Daddy AntsDec 26, 20183 votes

Akali should not be buffed until they remove the True Invisibility.

Slam DùnkDec 26, 20182 votes

shyvana needs a buff xd

AR URFDec 26, 20182 votes

She needs a buff nerf. Buff her numbers a little bit. A LITTLE BIT. Then nerf her shroud to where she can be attacked when under tower and re stealth takes longer.

qko pateDec 26, 20182 votes

I prefer a champion like Akali to stay in the dust instead of making a loud sound about how overpowered she is... This nerf is a good start but a not a real end. You are ignoring the fact about the extreme power she was holding a few patches ago currently you just dont want to see her fall off the meta bcs she is fine... Mordekaiser is a perfect example of what happens to a champion if peoples just ignore it after some nerfs to balance..

14daysuspensionkDec 26, 20181 votes

Yet people complained about her release lul (come on people her rework release wasn't as bad as Zoe).

Daddy AntsDec 26, 20181 votes

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43% avg win rate, the lowest in league. 6% avg ban rate, the highest in league. The recent nerf has made her shroud almost useless. The new followthrough change has ruined the potential for akali to be viable.

Her ban rate is not 6% lmao.

https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/platinum/plus/champion/Akali/

49.46% right now.

King LegoDec 26, 20181 votes

Call me a cold blooded biased a-hole but: As long as Akali's true stealth shroud is still there, she deserves to be gutted. She's already a bad designed champion given to how much problems she already caused.

This is what happens when ct gets to do things solo to champions. You can put the blame on him.