Message to the Akali "mains"

IP Masquerena··2 votes·1,390 views

Now that Akali's rework was revealed and people start crying she'll be OP before they even see how she actually performs, I have a short message to the 1.6% of all her player base across all elos:

I know the rest of the 98.4% of you Akali "mains" that never played her or played her once, stomped because the enemy player was doing his fingernails, will come to the boards to cry that she's too weak and needs buffs, but please, for the holy name of And I, don't. I want to be able to play her, not have Riot listed to you, buff her, then she's pick/ban in Yolo que, then people ask for need a and Riot guts her.

Her new skill set is shown to have a med/high skill cap, so you won't be able to go 20789t426-0 from the get go, people need to learn to play her. She won't be OP on release, if you do read her skills (You can still see where she is in her shroud if she dives or you have true sight, you just can't auto or single target spell her unless she attacks you first, but her shroud is much shorter as well now)

SO please, even tho I know you'll still cry she's too weak, don't.

8 Comments

Blindsorcerer1 votes

She looks broken not weak what video did you watch lmao

IP Masquerena1 votes

The same as anyone else, I just also read the skills and how they work.

She is more healthy, and unlike live Akali that can go in anytime she wants, the reworked one will need to hit E to go in, and dance around you for the bonus damage, especially early until she gets fed. Basically, even at level 6, she can't 100-0 instantly, she needs to weave spells and autos, and she also can do that in 1 of 2 conditions:

  • You get too close to her when you are low or have key cooldowns down
  • She pokes you too much and you don't dodge E.

Also, her W is just overrated by players. As someone said in another thread, get ready to see the towerdives make it at Solo Feed's youtube.

Infernape1 votes

She won't be OP on release

TFW people said that about Irelia. Look how that ended up. Riot ended up hotfix olafing her the day after she released (or was it the same day?).

IP Masquerena1 votes

Irelia had a number problem, won't deny that, but that's not something hard to understand, because before we saw her actual numbers, we had a bunch of "she looks weak" threads, not as many as ugly boy Aatrox, but I recall seeing at least 2.

Now, my belief is that she won't be OP on release, but what as I said in the thread, I am afraid the future heroes from Solo Feed's videos asking for her to get buffs because she has too high of a skill cap now for them to handle and they die in dives and/or can't combo her properly and go 0-24, then Riot buffing her, followed by her pick/ban status, then a gutting, making a champion I love almost unplayable because some 12 year olds think they deserve to go Faker from game 1 on a high skill cap champ.

If she does end up OP from the get go, then I wholeheartedly support nerfs for her kit to bring her to a balanced level.

ankoanko191 votes

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Irelia had a number problem, won't deny that, but that's not something hard to understand, because before we saw her actual numbers, we had a bunch of "she looks weak" threads, not as many as ugly boy Aatrox, but I recall seeing at least 2.

Now, my belief is that she won't be OP on release, but what as I said in the thread, I am afraid the future heroes from Solo Feed's videos asking for her to get buffs because she has too high of a skill cap now for them to handle and they die in dives and/or can't combo her properly and go 0-24, then Riot buffing her, followed by her pick/ban status, then a gutting, making a champion I love almost unplayable because some 12 year olds think they deserve to go Faker from game 1 on a high skill cap champ.

If she does end up OP from the get go, then I wholeheartedly support nerfs for her kit to bring her to a balanced level.

Akalis passive dmg seems high by the looks of the preview. Idk about the CD on her shroud though, it's 5s long so it should be a high cd.

IP Masquerena1 votes

That was with both of them at level 18, and people speculate it's 300 damage, as each of Swain's squares is worth 100 hp and he lost 3.

Again, that is speculation, but 300 damage at level 18 isn't an awful lot.

ankoanko191 votes

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TFW people said that about Irelia. Look how that ended up. Riot ended up hotfix olafing her the day after she released (or was it the same day?).

Irelia was op because she had insane numbers on release. She was hotfixed but she got nerfed in all the wrong places so she became a very weak laner with an insane mid & late. So they nerfed her again the wrong way and it didnt fix anything. When our lord & savior rickless came in and just smashed her passive, thats when she became literally useless. Thankfully, she has quite good buffs & adjustments coming for her.

ZackTheWaffleMan1 votes

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20789t426-0

nice

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