Akali is overpowered, and no one can tell me otherwise

Poppy WebMD·Sep 10, 2018·16 votes·6,178 views

Akali, an assassin, has insane lifesteal and sustain (few red flags up already), huge damage (even for an assassin), stupidly short cooldowns (c'mon, q's cooldown is not even fair), true invis (lets get a yay for free tower dives), and one of, if not the best, engages/disengages in league. Not to mention its not the easiest champion to disengage from, or even kill for that matter. Also, straight broken on her, and yes, even compared to other assassins.

Please stop letting CertainlyT design/rework champs, thanks!

17 Comments

ankoanko19Sep 10, 201813 votes

Akali, an assassin, has insane lifesteal and sustain (few red flags up already), huge damage (even for an assassin), stupidly short cooldowns (c'mon, q & R cooldown is not even fair), invis (lets get a yay for free 8s invulnerability), and one of, if not the best, engages/disengages in league. Not to mention its not the easiest champion to disengage from, or even kill for that matter. Also, item 1082 straight broken on her, and yes, even compared to other assassins.

Wait I was talking about old Akali. Did you too do that?

Stop mentioning a champions strength and ignore the weaknesses. You can make any fucking champion look op when you do that.

Slam DùnkSep 11, 20181 votes

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Akali, an assassin, has insane lifesteal and sustain (few red flags up already), huge damage (even for an assassin), stupidly short cooldowns (c'mon, q & R cooldown is not even fair), invis (lets get a yay for free 8s invulnerability), and one of, if not the best, engages/disengages in league. Not to mention its not the easiest champion to disengage from, or even kill for that matter. Also, straight broken on her, and yes, even compared to other assassins.

Wait I was talking about old Akali. Did you too do that?

Stop mentioning a champions strength and ignore the weaknesses. You can make any fucking champion look op when you do that.

do mord next pls

Beatrice fallsSep 11, 20185 votes

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do mord next pls

He protecc, he attacc, but most importantly, he carries a lot of bugs on his bacc

KloakSep 11, 20184 votes

I don't like the micro stun on her ult. I don't feel like she needed it, she already has too many ways of sticking to you.

saltranSep 10, 20183 votes

otherwise

DearPearSep 11, 20183 votes

Frustrating? Might be. Strong niche spells? Probably. OP? Absolutly not.

Poppy WebMDSep 11, 20181 votes

OK, so maybe op is a bit of an overstatement, but "strong niche spells" isn't what we needed with her rework [zombie-nunu-bummed]

Doge2020Sep 10, 20182 votes

The energy cost on q is around half of her energy bar, if she spammed it she would very soon be out of energy and won’t be able to use her amazing engage/disengage and her w. And btw the early damage of q is actually laughable, it has such low damage early that getting hit by it is more annoying than actually something to fear.

ŚhunpoSep 12, 20181 votes

Q->auto in repetition in the laning phase is what makes the low cooldown kinda lame.

Ornen127Oct 12, 20191 votes

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The energy cost on q is around half of her energy bar, if she spammed it she would very soon be out of energy and won’t be able to use her amazing engage/disengage and her w. And btw the early damage of q is actually laughable, it has such low damage early that getting hit by it is more annoying than actually something to fear.

It's unfair to simply state the energy cost of the ability without stating the many parts of it that make the energy cost less important. For a start, her Q is her only energy cost other than her 10 cost E, making it immediately less impressive.

It's also very noteworthy that her Q would be a fairly powerful ability even if it was on an 8-second cooldown, and you can't simply replace that with an energy cost which takes 8 seconds to get back. Doing so isn't accounting for all the extra energy you get from her passive, the energy regeneration on her W and the quick regeneration of energy to top that, especially when she can stealth for so long in her W to get back energy. An Akali can definitely spam her Q a lot more than the "high energy cost" argument would make you believe.

AR URFSep 11, 20182 votes

yeah honestly. I was playing a game as bruiser Fiora . My stats defence stats were well into the 100s and she just bursts me from 50-0 in 1 second.

ŚhunpoSep 11, 20182 votes

The only 2 broken things imo on her would be her new "Obscure" mechanic and Q's cooldown. Apart from that she's more annoying than OP.

Make her W just plain invisibility again and increase its cooldown in general and give Q a 4 second cooldown rank 1 scaling down to a 2 second cooldown rank 5.

Poppy WebMDSep 11, 20182 votes

i agree that would definitely make it less of a pain to deal with her

LeftyRaydySep 11, 20182 votes

Her Q cooldown is not that bad. It has an insane energy cost. Her W is another subject and her biggest issue. WHY DID THEY KEEP THIS FROM HER ORIGINAL KIT. They changed Everything else and only kept the Smoke Screen WHYYYYYYYY!!!!

RevaliSep 11, 20181 votes

the only thing I find overpowered about akali is her lvl 1-2, I don't think it should be stronger then every champion in the game's lvl 1/2 because of q cd.

you're basically forced to concede the first wave and fight a slight uphill battle.

They nerfed ornn for the same exact reason with his w a long while ago iirc.