why does akali need a speed boost

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why does shroud needs to give her back energy?

Why is her E recast global?

Why is shroud duration extended whenever she re-enters it?

That champion has so much unnecessary power its ridiculous.

Because CertainlyT, who so ""innovative"" and their design is so """fun""" so they're allowed to make gamebreaking designs and bend the rules of design 101 to his will whenever he pleases.

No, just kidding, CertainlyT is someone who can't design for shit and only has a following because all of his creations that he solo designed are all broken to their very core. "Fun to play as but not against" as often toted is just an apologist/nice way to say that his designs are fundamentally broken in the context of PvP (Appendix) hence why it's fun for the player to play as and bullshit for the opponent to try and deal with.

Appendix: CertainlyT's creations tend to all have this nonsense where they have over-the-chart and utterly unchecked play factors, which is bad enough but also they for some reason need to rub the salt in by having their stuff possess elements that actively reduce the opponents' play factors and ways to play around them just to tilt everyone who isn't playing his shit. It's an incredibly toxic, sadistic, and not to mention malicious way to design, and CertainlyT clearly knows about this but just couldn't give a shit. Why are you even designing for a PvP game if you don't give a shit about player experience on both sides so much so you intentionally go against it as much as possible?

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why does shroud needs to give her back energy?

Why is her E recast global?

Why is shroud duration extended whenever she re-enters it?

That champion has so much unnecessary power its ridiculous.

Looks at r/akalimains: almost entirely covered with people asking for a revert.

Looks at league statistics sites: 49% winrate with lowish pickrate in toplane, and a 45% winrate in midlane.

League of legends boards: “Wtf why is this champion so strong”

Except for professor akali, none of the Akali mains are happy. She is a gimmicky champion with clunky gameplay that perhaps in the right hands and in optimal or niche situations can be strong.

She isn’t necessarily a garbage champion, but she surely isn’t strong. What she is is annoying to play against AND as.

I don’t know why when reworking assassins, Riot absolutely fucking has to make the champion shit to play as and against.

TL;DR: while not strong, she feels horrible to play as and against. I would even say she isn’t a true CertainlyT champion, simply because she’s not fun to play either.

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why does shroud needs to give her back energy?

Why is her E recast global?

Why is shroud duration extended whenever she re-enters it?

That champion has so much unnecessary power its ridiculous.

But, Then you realize "Oh snap! Akali has a 48% winrate. and a 50% winrate for her mains!" so although it may seem unnecessary is it really?

EDIT: Also if akali had no speedboost she would be absolute garbage. She would not be able to proc her passive. Why does hecarim need a speed boost on his e it seems unnecessary! /s

Because you can't put it on Q, and E is already rewarding enough. Every other Energy champion has a Energy refund somewhere in their kit. Putting it on her shroud, once again, rewards aggression, since you're now in a better spot to attack.

Because it's actually hard to hit, and much easier to dodge, not to mention her time to kill still being much lower from her rework.

Because it's meant to encourage it to be used Offensively, as opposed to a "I'll never die from ganks because I hold onto my shroud." By rewarding players for aggression, you actually create more periods in which you can take advantage of Akali, as they'll be using their safety tools aggresively (Like TF using his Gold Card, or Syndra using her knockback/Stun).

But stuff like that is too hard to think of, when you can just bitch for nerfs, aye? CertainlyT makes extremely complex champs, that have a bunch of gears and cranks, to allow them to work in a way. Realistically, the real argument is, "Should these champs have to be so complex with needing X many parts just to function" not "This champ has too much power."

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why does shroud needs to give her back energy?

Why is her E recast global?

Why is shroud duration extended whenever she re-enters it?

That champion has so much unnecessary power its ridiculous.

• Because all energy champs need a way to regen energy since there's literally no other way besides blue buff.
• Does it matter ? Very easy to counter since you know where she's landing
• Because that's the duration her shroud was pre-rework
• Unnecessary power, maybe. But I pref this to pre-rework Akali who destroyed you post-6 instantly. Old akali almost never ran out of energy with her chain Qs.

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I mean all she has for mobility otherwise is a worse lee Q.

It's a better Lee Q since it has infinite dash range once marking the enemy, also it gives a backdash which can be used as mobility in and of itself too (Akali often uses it to cross over walls just like any other dash abilities but merely used in reverse direction) which Lee certainly doesn't have (not in Q anyway, and his W also requires a ward or ally unit of sort instead of just being a free-directional dash). Akali's E is like a combined version of Lee's Q and W, but with better boons and less drawbacks too; it's clearly not a "worse Lee Q".

So in total her mobility and self-peel capabilities are as follows: 1 zoning tool giving absolute and 0 counterplay stealth that covers the entire lane, 3 free-directional dashes in total including ulti, and 1 mark-chase with infinite range. This is not even counting her also having 3 separate instances of MS steroids in her kits, too. I don't know about you but this is utterly ridiculous.