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Let's Talk Akali.

Tioym·5/23/2019, 11:31:21 AM·25 votes·13,985 views

Alright. I'm Fucking Pissed at this Point.

Although I do Play her, I'm not a hardcore Akali Main. After playing her for the last couple of patches, I've gotten pretty damn good at her. Things just Clicked for me at a point and I started doing well on her. At first it seemed all good but I did not know what type of shit I was getting myself into. In this past few Patches she has been nerfed Multiple times. Why is this so? Exil here goes a bit deep into it, trying to justify the nerfs. I dont 100% Agree with him but it did seem Plausible. Alright I accepted the nerf and Stuck with her. Now We're going to soon get into Patch 9.11 where Akali gets Nerfed Yet again. At this point you just Question yourself: Why even fucking bother?

There are Two main Arguments People use to try to Justify Akali Nerfs.

1.Akali is Hard to Play, so people who are not good at her will significantly Drop her winrate. To this I say: Fucking Bullshit Sir. If A Difficult Champion NEEDS to have a a Low Winrate to be balanced then Explain: Draven sitting at roughly 52% Winrate. Zed sitting at roughly 51% Winrate. Vayne sitting at Roughly 50% Winrate. These Champions are Hard to play as well yet they sit above 50% Winrate. Akali sitting at 44% is getting nerfed every patch while these champions are Fine as is? This Argument pretty much has no Legs on it. '

**2. You cannot Punish a good Akali and she is Frustrating to play against ** This argument I can slightly agree with. Yes, once you get really good at Akali it seems like there's not much you can do to punish her. High-Elo Players Pick-up Timewarp Tonic & Biscuit to allow Akali to Survive Pre-Level 6 Trades in lane. Essentially if you play her Perfectly, she does not have much counterplay. The Pre-Lv.6 Window where you could Punish her can be Mostly Taken care of with Inspiration Secondary. To Compensate this she got her Shroud Cooldown HEAVILY Nerfed along with The Shroud Up-time. Her 25-Second shroud Cooldown does not change until after Level 9. This is a Fact you have to face. If you are not good enough to Play around her Cooldowns then don't blame it on Akali being Overpowered. Her spells do have a long Cool-down if you play around that there's a way to Punish her. Her Damage has been nerfed heavily and every time I see an Akali score a Kill, it's mainly the Enemy's Fault. If you Over-extend knowing she has 3 Dashes to Run you down the lane then it's not her Fault you decided to walk up next to her turret to auto a Minion. Now onto the "Frustrating" Part. Akali is Frustrating to play against because of her Shroud: Well it has been heavily nerfed so nothing to whine about here anymore. (OR)Akali is Frustrating to play because she has too many gap closers: Well Akali is not the only champion with more than one gap closers, Champions like Zed can Burst you and then instantly teleport away as well, nothing new here. Is Akali The Only Frustrating Champion to play against though? Heimerdinger? Pantheon? Jayce? Are These champions okay then? If a champion is frustrating to play against do you GUT the champion completely? Not Really, They are all sitting at 50%+ Winrates in their Respective Lanes. They don't seem to be getting nerfed. So again, Not a good enough Argument either.

Now I'll tell you why Akali is ACTUALLY Getting Nerfed. Because Challenger/Professional Players are good at her. That's pretty much it. The only reason Riot keeps dropping Nerfs on her every patch is to stop her from being Pick/Banned in Pro-Play. The Reason Darius got buffed before Worlds 2018 despite sitting at a 52%+ Winrate was because they wanted to see him at Worlds. Riot has a long history of Balancing Champions around Pro-play and to that I say FUCK YOU. Your Player-base is not only Professional Players. If you think the game should be different at a Competitive Stage then don't Fucking Balance them for the whole League Player-base. If you think Akali shouldn't be Pick/Ban in Pro-play then Nerf her SOLELY for Pro-play. The Akali Player-base sitting at 44% Winrate getting bombarded with Nerfs every patch is Fucking Stupid and No one deserves this treatment.

At this Point you simply Wonder: Why not just fucking Remove Akali from the game at this point Am I Right? [sg-shisa]

I Recommend Reading the Comments as there are some things I have Missed and others have had Arguments against Me which are not all just:"fuCk rEmooVe ak4li"

There were 2 Reasons I made this Post

  1. To Blow off Steam
  2. To Help the Community Understand what really is going on No I don't hate people who hate Akali and I would like to help everyone understand why she is not broken. Throw me your Arguments against my Post and I will do my best to answer them and Convince you that what Riot is doing here is WRONG.

75 Comments

D357R0Y3R5/23/2019, 12:00:41 PM15 votes

you don't need to write an essaie for this

Akali had 100% pick/ban rate in MSI in the pro scene

therefore she gets nerfed

that's how it always worked

why is jayce being nerfed? because he had 100% pick/ban in MSI

Cevrad5/23/2019, 4:46:45 PM12 votes

Because shes busted. You know what the issue is? When it is showcased in pro play how damn abusive a champion is, it trickles over into Solo Queue. The problem with this champion is the people who play it, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHAMPION ITSELF. People who play this champion are just bad, the champion is absolutely busted, and its being showcased again and again for the last 6 months in pro play. Its only a matter of time before the mains of this champion pull their head out of their arses and get good at the champion. And then you would release a post asking why the champion wasn't nerfed around this time. This champion absolutely needs damage nerfs and not just utility nerfs that she doesn't even use half the time in pro play.

You will never ever see a good Akali cause you are in silver 3, but I am tired of watching this champion stomp games when in the right hands at my elo in D1, I could only imagine in Challenger how frustrating it is to play against this busted crap. And this is after the nerfs.

And I get it, you are gonna look at this like an elitist view because you cannot comprehend what you do not see in action. But trust me when I say this, an Akali main who's good most of the time has full control of a game because she has 0 losing matchups.

When a champion is seeing nerfs its because there is good reason for it, Riot doesn't exactly like nerfing things unless they are truly busted. And if they are nerfing something this hard, it has to be a massive problem somewhere like in Pro play which will inevitably trickle into D2-Challenger.

The sad part is, you have 0 care for anyone but yourself, you don't care about the tens of thousands affected in Diamond+ by good Akali players, you only care about the majority who could legit play anything and climb. Sure remove Akali, personally, gonna be a decent champion after this anyways so don't see the point in removing her :) Besides in Silver noone even uses the passive anyways so what the hell do you care?

Zeromatsu5/24/2019, 2:10:04 PM7 votes

I never understood the thought of "We don't want to see this champion in Pro-play, so we nerf it to the state of unplayability". Instead of destroying a champion for everyone just disable them for worlds or whatever tournament.

If a champion is objectively overperforming in all elos you are free to nerf them. But going as far as nerfing a champion till it reaches 43~% winrate is just too much. At this point they could remove the Champion because it handicaps the team they are played on. And please guys, don't bring the argument that at the right hands they are still good.... The effort you have to put into them and the results you get are not worth it and despite mastering these champions, there are still better picks. Just look at pro play, if there is something better, it will be abused.

Champions like Kalista, Azir etc. deserve better treatment.

That beeing said: I have no idea if Akali is really that broken. Atleast in my games I don't have a problem with her since nobody is good at her.

Thorwulfe5/23/2019, 12:20:37 PM6 votes

MSI was on an even older patch. The newest shroud nerf wasn’t even seen yet in pro play and now they are hitting her main source of trading/damage. They didn’t even give the nerf a chance to hit pro play before they gut her with this one yet again! It’s outrageous, and unfair. Shit on the main populous more guys.

Vilu20056/3/2019, 12:39:10 PM3 votes

Save akali She doesen't deserve this

DalekZec5/24/2019, 1:04:22 AM3 votes

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The thigh guy5/24/2019, 1:08:00 AM2 votes

Akali is broken. She has 100% agency in any matchup.

If at any point any akali dies for any reason, It is 190% their fault. Even if an ally baits them in, its her fault.

MasterMYi5/23/2019, 3:49:37 PM2 votes

You are right, and this is my argument about akali https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/g1ij5qui-from-chinese-player-a-full-analysis-and-advice-about-the-rework-of-akail

d4rkshock1/17/2020, 8:24:42 AM1 votes

Yasuo (generic example) op better nerfAkali

NodirjonSattarov5/24/2019, 4:49:34 PM1 votes

I just want to say one thing, stop capitalizing random words throughout the sentence. There is actually no consistency in some of your sentences.

Ilezt5/24/2019, 8:58:59 PM1 votes

One word:"Revert" It will probably be healthier for everyone who plays akali and plays against her, than what it is now it would also be easier to balance old Akali's kit than reworked Akali's kit - thats just my opinion tho :). What do you think?

Garish195/30/2019, 2:48:12 AM1 votes

at this point making her w have a higher cool down giving power to her q or passive would make sense ive been playing akali for a bit my favorite champ and always will be time now started playing league last year

[zombie-brand-clap]

shadowhunter44446/10/2019, 7:56:45 AM1 votes

I honestly don't see why people have this much hate for Akali. Even if you have trouble against her, even if you feel lane becomes impossible, you are more likely than not going to win game every time you are matched against her. So please, let us Akali mains have something. She is incredibly fun to play, and no matter how much she gets gutted she will always be my go to, but at a certain point I can't help but notice how weak she feels. She is unique and I hate to see that taken away just because some people don't like it. Other champions can be frustrating, but they don't get nerfed into the ground, even when they are much stronger. In tiers where she is strong, Akali could force change in the metagame. That's how a metagame is supposed to work. She is not strong, she gets picked because she is useful. The only way for Riot to get the result they want (reduced pro play) by the strategy they are using (removing power) is to nerf her so far into the ground she is completley unviable in ant situation at any level. They need to just accept they made something strong and let it exist. Some new champion or strategy could make her drop in usage without Riot needing to lift a finger. I'd say for now if people don't want to face her they should feel free to ban her, but she shouldn't be effectively removed as a viable option.

AronCartman10/25/2019, 1:13:28 AM1 votes

I think you're just bad and have never played against a good akali and you also suck at akali so you wouldnt know how that feels -_-