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Riot please fix your champ balancing

Marth Fox 60 40··1 votes·786 views

Ok riot, I know that making a game balanced is hard, especially with all these champions you have in the game, but wtf are you doing? Why do you make champions that’s already have a low win rate even worse? For example, akali, already had 43% win rate before her latest nerf (56% ban rate tho???) but now you nerf her more by removing her already pretty weak sustain. Before her latest nerf you could sometimes run fleet footwork to survive in lane but now it’s practially manditory to bring fleet so you don’t completely lose your lane and the game, and since you aren’t bringing electrocute you don’t have the dmg to kill even the squishiest champs. The shroud I can sort of understand it had some pretty broken aspects to it but the removing the healing from her q is the worst nerf I’ve ever seen. You just completely destroy this champion (38% win rate now in mid lane...) but never touch the champs that actually need to be nerfed. Jax, Brand, Yorick, you never touch these champs, even though they deserve the nerfs way more than akali. At this point you should just revert akali. You guys obvi don’t know what to do with her so why don’t u just keep how she looks but revert her abilities. She’d be more useful how she was compared to now, cause compared to now it’s practically reportable to play akali in ranked. It’s ruining so many people’s league experience and you do nothing about it. Please riot wake up.

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Prestige AkaIi1 votes

Winrate is not a reliable way to determine if a champ is strong or not, especially on a champion with a higher skill floor like Akali.

They removed the two most frustrating(also strongest) parts of her kit to help reduce her banrate, which worked, it's now around 10% I believe. They released that once her banrate dropped they were going to slowly compensate her and bring her back to a balanced state while keeping the frustration down, which takes time. Meddler said she will supposedly be getting buffs in 9.5, so I suggest at least waiting until then.

Idk how hard it is to look into what the plan is for a champion before complaining about how they're just "doing nothing about it." They haven't exactly been hiding what they wanted to do with Akali, they're giving her the Zoe treatment, harsh nerfs to lower the banrate, then slowly reintroduce some power in their kits.

She was linear, and unhealthy before the rework, even though I loved her old kit, her new kit is better for balance and I'm enjoying it arguably more.

Edit - Wanted to mention you should at least have looked into the patch history of the 3 champs you mentioned, Jax got nerfed in 9.2, Yorick got buffed in 9.2 after being weak for a few months, and Brand also got nerfed in 9.2. You could've picked any champ that riot "never touches" but all three of the champs you picked got changes fairly recently.

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