Akali's E.

Rinzy·3/25/2015, 7:33:17 AM·3 votes·919 views

Alright, so I can already tell you I haven't put much thought into this, but I guess it was more of seeing if anyone had the same thoughts. I haven't been playing League of Legends for TOO long, approaching 2 years now. But for a while I extremely favored playing Akali. Playing her, she had her huge power spike at 6, but before that you could poke with her Q (obviously) and then detonate it with her relatively low damage E ability and try to retreat to make it a relatively good trade. But now that her E doesn't proc the Q detonation, I honestly see it as just.. there. Most of the time, you'll see Akali's R, Q, auto attack, Shroud, rinse and repeat, with maybe a random E in there to do about 100 damage after defense calculations. I really enjoyed playing Akali, but I guess the point of this post, is her E has become relatively useless. What do you guys think about it?

3 Comments

Lil Soybean3/25/2015, 8:08:41 AM4 votes

Her nerfs sort of destroyed her.

But the fact of the matter is, people hated facing fed Akalis so much that they're happier with her being nigh-useless, than with her being somewhat overbearing.

For example: I feel similarly about Katarina. I don't think she's straight up OP 1v1, but the way she can snowball if she gets just a few early kills makes her extremely anti-fun to play against. Akali suffered from a similar problem. I guess a lot of assassins have that issue, right? The whole feast-or-famine problem.

Anyway, the nerfs were not how she should've been handled. The problem wasn't her power, it was how easily she accessed that powered. That is to say, she needed a Zilean-level rework to make her require more skill to play, so that she wasn't so easy to snowball with but still rewarded skilled play just as well.

Hard4Hamsters3/25/2015, 7:46:15 AM2 votes

I agree with you completely. Her E has no place in her kit right now. It adds minuscule damage in her burst combo, but it doesn't mesh with her kit anymore. I want Riot to give the E the ability to proc her Q again, but maybe lower her damage on the second part of her Q to compensate. I understand that they want to give players more time to react to Akali jumping on their face before she 100-0's their ass, but her E doesn't fit in her kit anymore. Another option would be to give her some type of CD for her other abilities or some type of utility when she uses it. I dunno. This is where I'm at. I honestly don't like playing Akali or playing against her, but I do recognize that people who enjoy playing Akali found the change very offensive, and I didn't agree with it. Her E needs to be reverted or needs to be changed to make it fit with her abilities.

NorthernDruid3/25/2015, 10:09:25 AM1 votes

Her E is incredibly lacking at the moment. Mosly because it's a click-to-damage instaburst anyone around you skill, preventing it from having meaningful damage or any good utility, because of how easy it is to hit with (especially because R->E is unavoidable for the target) due to the nature of it being a completely untargetted ability.

It needs some utility, perhaps unlocked by proccing the mark, perhaps if you procc it with E you don't get the energy restore (or perhaps only half of it) in favour of a relatively potent slow, or some other cool utility.

Another addition, especially if they do give it potent utility, is to turn it from an instant, untargetet, point blank, AoE. To either a cone skillshot (wider and shorter than most, or an empowered AA hitting an area in front of her (like Vi's E, but shorter range and wider area).

Right now, the ability really only serves the use of waveclear for her (and it should continue to do so mind you, but it should play a bigger role in her champion-centric burst and as such require more attention to excecute, but be rewarded for skillful usage.

'Cause as it is, her E is just there, and doesn't really do anything interesting.