Honestly, I don't like how Riot keeps attempting to "even out" champions and their power curves.

Onandaga·2/2/2018, 5:21:51 AM·1 votes·191 views

Quote from champion roadmap:

"Akali has always been a beloved champion, but she hasn’t aged particularly well. Her assassin pattern is very all-or-nothing, so it can be difficult for her to succeed unless she snowballs off of early kills. We want to give her more options for success by playing up her ability to hide in plain sight."

Now don't get my wrong, I find akali to be a very annoying champ to play against and definitely think she could use some gameplay improvements. However, the part I disagree with here is that I don't necessarily see being an all-or-nothing champion as being a bad thing. While these champions often tend to get deemed as unhealthy, some players, myself as one of them, intensely enjoy the challenge of playing a champ who has limited options early but has the potential to carry a game solo should you succeed.

What I'm basically saying is, the game would be a lot more flat and uninteresting if we didn't have at least a few all-or-nothing type champs. If we had no lane bullies, no hypercarries, no snowballers and everybody had the same linear power curve, the game would lose much of its strategic element and I'm sure it would lose much of it's playerbase. Just my 2 cents.

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Kai Guy2/2/2018, 8:50:46 AM1 votes

Your not wrong on the whole but look at Akali individually. QR point and click. E, Set up by R, dam near impossible to miss. Shrouds about the most complex part of her kit. Theres not much "skill" in her. You can RQE + other shit to kill, or you cant. its not complex, its not really skill baised.

This is a kit that's entirely deserving of a rework. "Balance" in a moba is hogwash. ELO's do not share viability for champions. Wanting 50% viability on everything with out sharing the same level of complexity is a fools quest.