I full heartedly love the new Akali compared to the old Akali. The old one was so boring when it came to combos and unique ways to kill. Yes, this Akali has a "unique" mechanic of True Stealth and it's need to be removed, I agree with that. But I wouldn't say this Akali is a failure.
She is way more mobile with this kit and OHHH-HO-HO-HO, is it fun. The old Akali lacked the mobility pre level 6. She only had the blink on her W which honestly wasn't used that much for invisibility and just hopping over small walls or to get that small gap closer in range matchups. We got the E now for hopping over much bigger walls, W with great movement speed and the energy regain because of the Q energy cost, her Q is like a weird mix of her old Q and E. The passive is kinda iffy, it does kinda slow down your burst but the movement it gives walking out to get your passive auto and walking towards your opponent after you get the passive auto ready. Her ultimate has so many different ways to use it because it's not point and click and I'm happy that Riot is walking away from point and click abilities like that. The nerf after nerf after nerf is getting really annoying and it's even more annoying when they are targeting the wrong thing. The true stealth needs to be removed, not because it's broken, because honestly it's not after the nerfs in 8.24b, but it's so stupidly buggy. Most of the time, it doesn't even work. The only reason why low elo idiots say it's broken is because they don't realize the openings that they have because of 8.24b nerfs. So to make them stop complaining about a mechanic that's not even broken, they need to remove it. But compensation buffs need to come in.
I believe Riot was wrong to remove the heal. It was toxic that she could go to full health on minions alone and the old Akali was toxic in that way too so I think it should only heal when hitting champions, but the heal is a important tool for Akali/Akali mains. The heal factor was unique to her.
The next thing I would say is to make Akali's E have true stealth, "Can't stop what's comin'". There are so many matchups she loses because whenever she wants assassinate someone, they go invisible/camouflage/FoW and even if you E them, they can leave because you can't use E2 in you can't see them.
The last thing is to make her ult cast time difference shorter on rank. 2.5/2.25/2. As @Akali is SO HOT (true btw), the burst is pretty slow for an assassin and people have plenty of time to react. This should help her assassinate faster without changing her passive completely.
In my opinion, the Akali rework on release was a failure, the Akali nerfs have been going the wrong way but I hope this post/comment enlightens Riot on what I believe needs to be fix. Other people may have other opinions and it's fine but I have my opinion too which is this.
From a neck destroyed summoner (thanks btw lol)
Turtqies 
