@Riot: I have a suggestion for Akali's E.

Raxistaicho··19 votes·1,024 views

According to (https://twitter.com/ricklessabandon/status/595330137949741056 ), the reason Akali was nerfed so that her E does not trigger her Q was because of the combination of the range and not drawing Minion aggro for doing it.

it introduced some patterns in lane that weren't ideal (primarily the effective range increase and no minion aggro)

But the issue I draw with this is that Akali's E becomes a completely worthless skill that has no synergy with the rest of her kit at all. This is severely unhealthy design, especially for an Energy champion, as they are supposed to have to decide which skill to use with their fleeting resource. How is there a conflict or a need for strategic decisions when one of the options serves no value? She's better off just saving her energy for QR chains.

Therefor, would it be possible to re-code her E to be treated as a basic attack (similar to Yasuo's Q) that applies on-hit effects to the first enemy struck? That would allow her to detonate her Q much more fluidly while actually drawing minion aggro. Furthermore, judging from her passive, you appeared to be trying to make her into some sort of AD/AP hybrid, and allowing her trigger on-hits with one of her skills would actually reward her for building AD items with on-hit effects. As she is now, the only AD she ever builds comes out of Hextech Gunblade, rendering the AD portion of her passive largely unused.

8 Comments

HadesBlades3 votes

.-. I say her energy issue needs to be addressed with how useless it is, and trying to make e spammable for every .6 sec (full cdr) They need to give her some chance to get energy back other than just q. Maybe every minion killed gives 5 energy back on e? Or maybe every time it hits a champ get back 30 energy, promoting her to go in more be able to spam more than one champ?

DrNova1 votes

I think its still good. Extra burst when diving onto an anamy, helps waveclear. Seems fine to me.

NorthernDruid1 votes

Making her E either a short wide Cone AoE or an autoattack enhancer ala Vi's E would be really cool and would allow them to stick some utility on it.

Sire Hippington1 votes

well, besides her E, she has a huge identity problem with the passive. That passive is perfectly suited for an hybrid fighter, offering increased aa-dps aswell as sustain while actually scaling exponentially from building a combination of ap and ad. However, the rest ofer her kit doesn'T fit to a fighter. Her beeing energie based hints more towards hit and run rather than constant fighting, the bursty damage aswell, her W granting invisibillity(only helping if your NOT attacking someone) and a short ms-boost again works against that passive and towards raw assasin. However, as raw assasin she would never want any more ad than a hextechfunblade, so curretnly her passive kinda works as a champion specific buff to Gunblade...

I think Akalies passive is so much wasted potential, it could make for an actuall hybrid champ but curretnly is strandet on an ap-assasin.

Laustin Space1 votes

She would need some definite ratio nerfs otherwise Lichbane would be beyond op on her otherwise i like this idea! :)

48983507DEL11 votes

Live on the PBE right now she is getting a change on her E so that at max rank, the cooldown is 1 second w/out even building cdr; this makes it a spam ability that scales with ad and ap. IMO this changes her playstyle completely, now making the question concerning resource management "Should I save my energy for another Q/R combo, or should I use it spamming E?"

Imagine how much damage she can get off if she builds cdr with Blue Buff? I personally am scared to see Black Clever item 3071 built on her, able to proc the passive every .8 seconds (plus auto attacks), getting a ton of bonus health, and getting a movement speed buff every .8 seconds that increases on kills, making her sticking potential even more rediculous than ever before. This change will absolutely bring her back, probably even scarier than before given the item circumstances, and also give her some new life in new buildpaths.

YOU BEEN WARNED1 votes

Yes please, Akali's E feels really bad. If she needs nerfs, nerf her. Just give her a good feel, just like the changes to Blitzcrank W.

Linna Excel1 votes

Energy costs are too high for it IMO.

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