How does everyone feel about keeping Akali's healing?

Śhunpo·Feb 4, 2019·4 votes·1,265 views

Ok, so hear me out on this it's a 10 million IQ observation....buuuuutttt.....Riot could shift Q's healing onto her passive and make it heal off of champions only. The amount could be small with a decent scaling with both AD and AP.

In any case Akali should keep her healing as it is an integral part of her kit and without it she kinda just loses to most champs if not all in the current metagame.

Still, I think shifting it onto her passive again would solve the issue of her healing being enormous and spammable.

12 Comments

iiGazeiiFeb 4, 20193 votes

I agree with that, 100%.

Moving it to her passive would require her to commit to not only landing an ability on a champion, but crossing that ring and landing an auto as well.

It would give her the sustain she needs for extended trades and teamfights without giving her free sustain between fights or while splitpushing. She doesn't have the 100-0 instant-kill potential of other assassins. She needs that sustain to actually live long enough to get the kill. She shouldn't be able to just live in a lane forever and only back when she wants to buy, but extended trades fueled by self-sustain is Akali's thing.

Sett a trapFeb 4, 20193 votes

shes gonna be Trash tier at this rate sadly.

Sir SaltarinFeb 4, 20191 votes

That was the point

ŚhunpoFeb 4, 20191 votes

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shes gonna be Trash tier at this rate sadly.

It's a pity, since fundamentally I like her new kit. It's just that they overloaded her with "obscure" and 10 million different things on her Q, being a slow, high spammability and a heal.

On My Kill ListFeb 4, 20192 votes

belongs in the dumpster.

InfernapeFeb 4, 20192 votes

Getting rid of her healing effectively guts her as a champion. Her base stats are lower than most of the assassins thanks to her having in built sustain.

Not to mention her large energy cost on her Q no longer makes sense as it's there to gate her healing.

SKT T1 DRACOSFeb 4, 20191 votes

Ye Early game talon almost kill i back off thinking ignite will kill her. She Q a minion......... Insane amount of healing.

DuskDaUmbreonFeb 4, 20191 votes

That's going to be like 20 HP, dude. Unless you mean closer to mid-game than early-game.

bluefire mark 2Feb 4, 20191 votes

Her heal early is almost non existent, with 40% reduced from ignite on top of that thats almost nothing. She probably just barely lived with 10 health and you didn't even care to make sure she died knowing that she might be able to heal. It's really your fault there.

haaaaaaalpFeb 4, 20191 votes

There is really no good solution to her kit. It was poorly designed and problematic from day 1. The best thing right now outside a full scale rework/revert is to make major changes and see where the pieces lie afterwards.

VolatileAkaliFeb 4, 20192 votes

Some easy solutions to reduce her frustrations.

Buff her base healing and nerf it's scaling, so in mid to late game she can't heal over 300+ hp.
Make shroud only normal stealth, but revert all it's past nerfs.
Nerf Q slow.

It is true that Akali is poorly designed, but like the heal is literally a legacy of old Akali. Removing it means removing Akali from Akali. She isn't Akali anymore without the heal.

Sir SaltarinFeb 4, 20191 votes

Wont feel bad for Akali being gutted