Akali is too weak for her role

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Here is the problem. Her kit is completly overloaded.

It doesn't feel nice to play against a champ that has a slow/heal/high dmg/short cd + long range Q which he can combo into his passive, run at you at mark 10 and give you another high dmg hit which restores energy and punishes you again.

Her W takes all the risk that exists in her playstyle away. The aggro is gone. Towers can't attack her. She even gets faster in the shroud so she can proc her passive even faster. It restores energy too, so even if you traded all your energy to poke the enemy and the enemy trys to attack and punish you, you press W and literally all the problems are gone. No counterplay.

Her E's dash is an extremly easy way of 1. dodging any incoming dmg, 2. poke the enemy and 3. proc your passive (which has too much base damage aswell). In combination with her shroud, its even more cancerous.

Her ult, which honestly doesn't even need a microstun, is basically the only thing that isn't completly overloaded. Its just cancerous to deal with.

There is no counterplay to it.

While CT's designs are fun to play with, its just impossible to deal with any of them. Hard to balance, no fun to face.

You can't make a champion that is op in early, mid and late.

Why give her so many things to fuck you over with? Why does her shroud give her energy and true stealth? Why does she need to move so fast in it? Why does her ult need a microstun? Why does her Q need to heal her? Why can't it be on her passive?

Why is it that every champion CertainlyT makes, it has to be an overloaded kit? Why is the only counterplay against his champs the fact that you NEED to hope that enemy has no idea of what he's doing?

Just WHY.

Her kit isn't more overloaded than it was before lmao. You don't have any idea what that actually means besides that it would apply to ALMOST EVERY SINGLE CHAMPION.

[{quoted}](name=Legend Alpha ,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=PelHT08l,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2019-01-20T22:10:30.417+0000)

Here is the problem. Her kit is completly overloaded.

It doesn't feel nice to play against a champ that has a slow/heal/high dmg/short cd + long range Q which he can combo into his passive, run at you at mark 10 and give you another high dmg hit which restores energy and punishes you again.

Her W takes all the risk that exists in her playstyle away. The aggro is gone. Towers can't attack her. She even gets faster in the shroud so she can proc her passive even faster. It restores energy too, so even if you traded all your energy to poke the enemy and the enemy trys to attack and punish you, you press W and literally all the problems are gone. No counterplay.

Her E's dash is an extremly easy way of 1. dodging any incoming dmg, 2. poke the enemy and 3. proc your passive (which has too much base damage aswell). In combination with her shroud, its even more cancerous.

Her ult, which honestly doesn't even need a microstun, is basically the only thing that isn't completly overloaded. Its just cancerous to deal with.

There is no counterplay to it.

While CT's designs are fun to play with, its just impossible to deal with any of them. Hard to balance, no fun to face.

You can't make a champion that is op in early, mid and late.

Why give her so many things to fuck you over with? Why does her shroud give her energy and true stealth? Why does she need to move so fast in it? Why does her ult need a microstun? Why does her Q need to heal her? Why can't it be on her passive?

Why is it that every champion CertainlyT makes, it has to be an overloaded kit? Why is the only counterplay against his champs the fact that you NEED to hope that enemy has no idea of what he's doing?

Just WHY.

I don't think she is hard to balance right now. just remove her heal on q, microstun on ult, and give shroud normal stealth. this is just my opinion though.

She's decent early, better Mid but still not great and falls off at 30 min. She's not "great" at any point in the game unless she snowballs off lane phase, and she still falls off at 30 minutes even if she snowballs. She also has the second weakest health, health regen and armor stats in the game, with only soraka lower than her.

She has so much safety in her kit, which is why her combo also has the most backloaded and lowest burst out of any assassin, which is why she has to use it more than once to kill her target. Again, the exception is when she gets fed and snowballs, but that's the same with any champ, when they get ahead they do more damage.

Why give her so many things to fuck you over with? Why does her shroud give her energy and true stealth? Why does she need to move so fast in it? Why does her ult need a microstun? Why does her Q need to heal her? Why can't it be on her passive?

If they removed the energy on her W she would need a lower energy cost on her Q and a higher energy back on her passive, it's a bit too free on her W but she definitely needs that energy back to function decently. I think they should just remove her turret stealth and give her compensation buffs, because her shroud is really the only op thing about her, the rest of her kit is weak.

Her MS in shroud isn't very much higher, it's only a small bonus. It's when she stacks it with her passive(and possibly phase rush) that she moves so quickly.

I don't get the hate for the microstun, it's not surprising that when a champ gets their kit updated they should have some form of hard CC, even if they're an assassin. She doesn't even have a ridiculous stun or anything like that, she has a .5 second stun on a 120 second CD. She needs it to help interrupt channels and land her E, plus it makes it so even when she gets behind, she can at least provide some form of utility in a teamfight. If you're gonna complain about Akali's stun, make it fair and complain about all the other hard CC in assassin's kits, like leblanc E, evelynn W, Rengar E, Shaco W, Ekko W, etc.

It could be on her passive like it used to be, but why? You were the one complaining about overloaded abilities, excluding the heal Akali's Q is only an AOE that slows at the tip of the hitbox, which is relatively simple. Her passive however, already gives movement speed two times, moving towards the ring and after crossing the rings' line, and gives her bonus damage scaling with both ad and ap, and bonus range, on top of giving energy back. Adding healing on top of her passive doesn't really make much sense if you want to get rid of overloaded abilities. I don't really understand why you don't like the heal on her Q tbh.

Her Q has an "invisible CD" because of how much energy it costs, sure it has a 1.5 CD but it also costs half her energy, so she gets two uses of that Q and then has to wait for her energy to come back, at longest it would take 20 seconds to regen to full energy, and 10 seconds to use Q again. W also gives 40 energy so you basically get 3 quickish bursts of Q before you have to back off and regen, and if you let Akali get all 3 of those off on you you're basically asking to die.

You say she has no counterplay, which just makes you seem like another one of those circlejerking Akali haters who assumes no counterplay, and constantly ban her so you have no chance to learn if, in fact, she actually has counterplay or not. If she doesn't have counterplay why don't you go play her, she sounds like such a free win to me. I can honestly tell you, sure her kits annoying, but outside of her W, her kit is not op and you need to just learn to play around it.