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"Akali has some design issues that we hope to resovle with her rework" - Riot before 8.15

Irelia Bot·1/31/2020, 8:27:38 PM·6 votes·2,858 views

Well over a year after Akali's rework she is still in a far less healthy position than she was in 8.14.

Give us back non pro play viable old akali and call it a day already. You don't have to nerf her every few patches to remove her as a constant threat in pro play. You got plently of data on how old Akali functionedso you won't have to do much outside of a few minor buffs or nerfs to reach a relatively balanced state for whatever the game has farther changed into.

"But Akali is one of our most popular and recognized champs because of KDA and True damage, we can't do that". So you are just going to keep deleting more and more of her kit? Her shroud is so much of a joke that it might as well be deleted and the ability only restores 80 energy at this point. It will be like an even dumber Lissandra's old passive.

There is no resemblance between new akali and old akali play style outside of the Shroud anymore. You would have been better off making a new champ with no shroud instead of this rework to remove "toxic" aspects of a champ which was not highly played except when over buffed (like any champ 60% WW and Skarner flashbacks), had rare pro play appearances after season 1 with only Westrice and Voyboy being the 2 players who seem to bring her out and was generally not perma banned.

Just bite the bullet, revert Akali's kit and then figure out what elements of New Akali's kit are actually healthy and acceptable to have together and use them for a new champ.

18 Comments

Ragnaveil1/31/2020, 8:58:00 PM2 votes

Ok, and you think 3 champ targeted dashes that are pretty instant and also gain a new charge per takedown is balanced over the current? Im sorry, but you have to be lying to yourself to think that.

IMelchorI2/2/2020, 7:42:15 PM1 votes

this is still more efford than riot tried to put into garens rework and to get it balanced.

did you know the rioter who made it was working completely by himself and was not allowed to change anything that would have required additional people like something that would need new icons or other assets?

they also pulled him off the rework after two weeks to work on something else and then gave it to someone else to do whatever.

that rioter said he wanted to release the rework op on purpose just so people learn to build attack speed on garen.

then they nerf hammered garen into being useless later without even thinking of trying to balance his rework out in a correct way.

during the whole time there was no efford at all put into trying to make the champion good and balanced. riot does not care about their own game when they are not playing the champions themselves.

SiG DxD2/6/2020, 4:36:10 PM1 votes

top 3 can cerous designs of all time = akali

RIP Broken Blade2/7/2020, 2:55:33 PM1 votes

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Well over a year after Akali's rework she is still in a far less healthy position than she was in 8.14.

Give us back non pro play viable old akali and call it a day already. You don't have to nerf her every few patches to remove her as a constant threat in pro play. You got plently of data on how old Akali functionedso you won't have to do much outside of a few minor buffs or nerfs to reach a relatively balanced state for whatever the game has farther changed into.

"But Akali is one of our most popular and recognized champs because of KDA and True damage, we can't do that". So you are just going to keep deleting more and more of her kit? Her shroud is so much of a joke that it might as well be deleted and the ability only restores 80 energy at this point. It will be like an even dumber Lissandra's old passive.

There is no resemblance between new akali and old akali play style outside of the Shroud anymore. You would have been better off making a new champ with no shroud instead of this rework to remove "toxic" aspects of a champ which was not highly played except when over buffed (like any champ 60% WW and Skarner flashbacks), had rare pro play appearances after season 1 with only Westrice and Voyboy being the 2 players who seem to bring her out and was generally not perma banned.

Just bite the bullet, revert Akali's kit and then figure out what elements of New Akali's kit are actually healthy and acceptable to have together and use them for a new champ.