Akali is now utter garbage

3xtrat3rr3strial·Sep 11, 2019·3 votes·1,595 views

Reverse the nerfs you made on Akali, she has become unplayable. Honestly, I don't care about your fucking proplay, I just want to play the game. If you want her to be less viable in pro-play, that's not the way. Here is what I suggest as a hotfix to Akali's kit, to make her viable in normal games and pro-play at a time.

Please, read below the second line before downvoting. I am open minded to change the values if you think this is too strong. Also, please use the Poll to vote and not the thread vote counter. Will help me understand better.

PASSIVE: Assassin's Mark

Swinging Kama: Akali's next basic attack range is doubled, deals 39 − 180 ---> 5 − 185 (based on level) (+ 60% −> + 30% bonus AD) (+ 50% −> + 40% AP) bonus magic damage and restores 10/15/20 −> 20/25/30 energy.

Q: Five Point Strike

Akali throws a flurry of kunai in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit, equal to 25/50/75/100/125 (+ 65% AD) (+ 60% AP) −> 10/25/40/55/70 (+ 90% bonus AD) (+ 65% AP). Enemies hit at maximum range are also Slow icon slowed by 50% −> 5/7.5/10/12.5/15% for 0.5 −> 0.25 seconds.

No longer dealing 133% at max rank to minions.

NEW: This spell has 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% chance (increased by modifiers) to critically strike for 120/135/150/165/180% (increased by modifiers) damage. Will always critically strike to minions at max rank for 10% reduced damage. Critical strike damage increased by 1/2/3/4/5% (increased by modifiers) on isolated targets.

Cost: 100/95/90/85/80 −> 110/100/90/80/70 Cooldown: 1.5 −> 4/3.5/3/2.5/2 seconds

W: Twilight Shroud

Energy restoration: Removed New effect - Kinkou's Ki: While in the shroud, casting a spell refunds Akali 15 energy once she enters invisibility again. Shroud bonus movement speed: Removed Shroud duration: 5/5.5/6/6.5/7 −> 4/5/6/7/8 seconds NEW - Cost: 60/45/30/15/0 energy

E: Shuriken Flip

Cost: 30 −> 70/65/60/55/50 energy Cooldown: 16/14.5/13/11.5/10 -> 22/19.5/17/14.5/12 seconds

FIRST CAST Damage: 40/70/100/130/160 (+ 35% AD) (+ 50% AP) −> 20/40/60/80/100 (+ 90% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP) physical damage

SECOND CAST Damage: 10/20/30/40/50 (+ 45% bonus AD) (+ 40% AP) + 3/4/5/6/7% of target's missing health as magic damage.

R: Perfect Execution

Cooldown: 160/130/100 -> 140/125/110 seconds

FIRST CAST Damage: 40/80/120 (+ 30% AD) (+ 20% AP) physical damage. New? stuns all targets hit for 0.5 seconds.

SECOND CAST Min. Damage: 70/110/150 (+ 20% AP) (+ 50% bonus AD) magic damage. Damage increase: by 4% for every 1% HP the enemy is missing. Caps at 40% HP. NEW - Critical Strike: This dash can critically strike, with a chance rate of 20/25/30% (increased by modifiers) for 110/155/200% (increased by modifiers) damage.

Sorry if some numbers sound too crazy, these can always be changed. Some sound weak to me, others sound too high. I just thought such change will make her more interesting as it will revolve around the mechanic of critical strike a lot. Maybe that will make her build , who knows.

16 Comments

Soul DealerSep 11, 20192 votes

The problem with Akali is that she has too much mobility in her kit. 2 dashes on ult, 2 dashes on e, and a ms buff on her passive. Something needs to go in the mobility department or she can’t be balanced.****

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20191 votes

I nerfed her slow on Q and increased her E cooldown at all ranks, so... I guess I did something on that part man. Removed her ms in W. What didn't I do?

Soul DealerSep 11, 20191 votes

{quoted}

I nerfed her slow on Q and increased her E cooldown at all ranks, so... I guess I did something on that part man. Removed her ms in W. What didn't I do?

Honestly I would make it so her second cast of e does not have infinite range

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20191 votes

You can stun her mid-dash and she will stop. No need to make Lee Sin #2. That's what's unique about her. The cooldown is already higher. Maybe reduce the mark time by 1 second, but that's it.

Jimmy RustlesSep 11, 20192 votes

Yea, they're nerfing her because she's bad

Totally not nerfing her because she's still very strong

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20192 votes

Can you please stop downvoting everything? I said use the poll vote counter.

Also, Akali isn't nearly as good as LeBlanc for example. Yes, she does have invisibility, so does LeBlanc for 1 second on her passive. LeBlanc has quadruple jump and twice as much damage as Akali. She uses mana, but she doesn't struggle with it if you take biscuits in lane and build item 3285 first. Basically, once she hits her level 11 spike when her R deals tremendous damage and she has Luden's Echo, she can 1-combo shot you. You cannot do anything about it, except just die or jump 5 people on her but even then the good LeBlanc player will be able to escape (for example - me).

On top of all, champions like LeBlanc counter Akali. (her true sight on her E)

Akali is supposed to counter Yasuo, however, the exact opposite happens because of her weak early game. He gets ahead and stomps her late game if he gets his 100% crit spike + item 3072 . He can also rush item 3156 and likely item 3022 . At that point, she cannot kill him. She will be way too far behind.

A lot of champions counter Akali and she's become one of the weakest champions in the entire game after this recent patch. If my change is not happening at least reverse her last state, where she was kinda ok, still had a lot of weaknesses but was overall better. Now Rito are slowly making Kalista #2.

Jimmy RustlesSep 11, 20191 votes

{quoted}

Can you please stop downvoting everything? I said use the poll vote counter.

Also, Akali isn't nearly as good as LeBlanc for example. Yes, she does have invisibility, so does LeBlanc for 1 second on her passive. LeBlanc has quadruple jump and twice as much damage as Akali. She uses mana, but she doesn't struggle with it if you take biscuits in lane and build first. Basically, once she hits her level 11 spike when her R deals tremendous damage and she has Luden's Echo, she can 1-combo shot you. You cannot do anything about it, except just die or jump 5 people on her but even then the good LeBlanc player will be able to escape (for example - me).

On top of all, champions like LeBlanc counter Akali. (her true sight on her E)

Akali is supposed to counter Yasuo, however, the exact opposite happens because of her weak early game. He gets ahead and stomps her late game if he gets his 100% crit spike + . He can also rush and likely . At that point, she cannot kill him. She will be way too far behind.

A lot of champions counter Akali and she's become one of the weakest champions in the entire game after this recent patch. If my change is not happening at least reverse her last state, where she was kinda ok, still had a lot of weaknesses but was overall better. Now Rito are slowly making Kalista #2.

Cool didn't downvote anything

And making "kalista #2" just means shes an incredibly strong champion so they have to reign her in due to her amazing kit/damage/utility because she's an absolute monster in competitive player, and most other players are too bad to actually use her to her full potential

Yep, don't buff her, rework her again if anything

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20191 votes

Fucking pro-play. I don't care about it. I want to play my champion. Stop excusing with this pro-play. What about having different stats on champions on the championship servers and on the live servers? That will make it way better.

preternaturalSep 11, 20192 votes

i said this akali nerf was incorrect, i don't even play akali le derp.

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20192 votes

It truly is a stupid nerf. I always stomp her on lane.

bewarefeedingSep 11, 20191 votes

Akali is for boosted like u so skilled to spam q

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20192 votes

Let's not forget she has high energy costs on her Q :)

ZeyphelSep 11, 20191 votes

[deleted]

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 11, 20192 votes

Then maybe they should reverse her huge nerf. Okay, I'd agree on the 160 cooldown part at 1st rank, ok. That was enough of a nerf.

Cheesy BonerSep 12, 20191 votes

I hope they keep gutting her so that eventually, zero non-pro people play her and then they'll have to do something else. I want old akali back. Fuck the new kit.

3xtrat3rr3strialSep 12, 20192 votes

Honestly, I liked the old Akali too, but I like her new visual. Maybe we can keep it at least?