Create room for counterplay against Akali? Also, a question for Riot

Exabytes·2/12/2015, 5:35:46 AM·1 votes·1,397 views

So, as some of you may know, Akali got nerfed (not to the ground, but still a fair amount) this patch.
For those of you that forgot/didn't read/didn't know about the changes, here they are: Akali's E no longer procs Q Shadow Dance range reduced from 800 to 700. ** I was an Akali main last season (I do realize that I have like a 18% win rate on her XD but hey, I got more kills than deaths average) I agree, she was a face-rolling assassin who did crap tons of damage and could lifesteal the living daylight out of everything. I am now a loyal adc main (Got tired of people complaining about her being OP every game. Plus, everyone wants mid or top)but I still went to try her out. ** She is still strong but no where near OP now......IMO So let me cut straight to the chase: People want counterplay against Akali, but by straight up nerfing her damage, counterplay isn't created. She still facerolls everyone but just have to get a bit closer before that.

***My proposal: Change both her Q and her R into skillshots. Bring back the E proc. *The mobillity and damage is still there, but it's a lot more high-risk high-reward this way. One missed R and you're in the middle of the enemy team. **

And yeah, at the end of the day, I'm still a Silver IV player, and I'm sure a lot of you are leagues (literally) above me. But that's even better, what do you pros think of this? Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time, guys.

**TL;DR : Change her Q and R into skillshots to produce counter play. **

Also, as I was typing furiously away on this topic, I wondered if any player proposals/posts will ever be recognized and implemented by Riot. I realize that some awesome skin ideas or concepts have received attention from Riot, but any chance of Rito actually reading this post and, ya know................do something about it?

http://www.deviantart.com/art/DotA-vs-League-of-Legends-Threads-in-a-Nutshell-513353263

edit: fixed some things

10 Comments

SEKAI2/12/2015, 5:42:10 AM2 votes

While I agree Akali needs to be addressed as her counterplay is simply "don't feed her", well pink wards kinda help as well I guess.

But I disagree with changing everything into skill shots, this game has too much skill shots going for it.

M0b1us2/12/2015, 5:44:48 AM2 votes

I don't think you quite understand how badly Akali was nerfed.

Pre-nerf, she was hovering around ~51 percent win rate. Now, she is hovering between 42 and 44 percent.

Trust me, she needs a buff if anything. Even Urgot sports a higher win rate.

Leti the Yeti2/12/2015, 5:54:14 AM1 votes

hey, why dont we gut her sustain... you know what's used to justify Riven? her sustain is shit , even her hp/5 i shit remove akali's spell vamp and the problem is solved :D