Unpopular Opinion: New Akali is how assassins should be designed

Pubbi·8/7/2018, 4:09:41 PM·6 votes·1,520 views

Okay, the new Akali has been out for a while now, and she feels pretty good to me. (~20 games so far) A lot of people complained that her kit was clunky and poorly designed, but I think she is in a pretty good spot. However, looking on the League of Legends Wikia, I decided to check out her stat changes and I saw this:

Base armor reduced to 23 from 31.38. **Base health reduced to 550 from 593. **

And any of you who have played her recently should know, she is REALLY easy to kill outside of her shroud. One of the biggest things I've always disliked about assassins (being an assassin player myself) is how easy it is to get out of situations. Talon is the worst offender because of his E. His old kit used to revolve around escaping with the invisibility that his ultimate gave him, but most of the assassins have some crazy escape (Fizz Q/E, Leblanc W/R, Evelynn R, Shaco Q) with no way of countering it other than CC.

In short, the new Akali has lower resistances, less repeatable escape (her R is now on a flat CD), and the same one shot potential, but only if she gets an early kill.

6 Comments

Warlord Rhinark8/7/2018, 4:16:46 PM7 votes

Can we please, stop, saying "Unpopular Opinion:"?

z63XnLCMwX8/7/2018, 5:52:27 PM3 votes

She's not how an assassin should be designed. Right now she is more of a skirmisher than an assassin. She can't 100-0 champions like how assassin are supposed to. No assassin should be allowed to have the upper hand in long trades.

SweedishGunner8/7/2018, 9:12:21 PM1 votes

Popular opinion; stop putting 'unpopular opinion' in the title of threads.

Oleandervine8/7/2018, 9:18:37 PM1 votes

If turrets could see into her Shroud, I'd be more accepting of her. However, until that unnecessary bullshit is removed, I will hate her.