Please nerf akali... She's extremely broken atm...

Dysekeru·Oct 25, 2014·13 votes·1,573 views

I can't handle it anymore. Screw this game.

18 Comments

xSwimmxOct 25, 20149 votes

Pink wards aren't a counter.

You don't carry that many. All she has to do then is bait your pink ward then wait for shroud to go off CD. LOL.

Even still a Pink ward doesn't stop her ability to spell vamp back herself to full health in two attacks while you lose most of yours.

Akali is broken/op/toxic. I have her permabanned cause I'm suck of my team feeding her cause she roams for free kills and teams are too dumb to ward.

Snowballs way too easy. No inherent skill in her kit.

AazzlanoOct 25, 20143 votes

Pink wards aren't a counter.

You don't carry that many. All she has to do then is bait your pink ward then wait for shroud to go off CD. LOL.

Even still a Pink ward doesn't stop her ability to spell vamp back herself to full health in two attacks while you lose most of yours.

Akali is broken/op/toxic. I have her permabanned cause I'm suck of my team feeding her cause she roams for free kills and teams are too dumb to ward.

Snowballs way too easy. No inherent skill in her kit.

item 2043 Pink wards are a counter... lol. she literally loses one of her abilities for nothing + a ton of her energy. If you get baited to drop your pink ward you are doing something wrong. You should be using it for when you are going to kill her, not just in a random trade. And stop dueling with her if you aren't a duelist. Punish her farming pre-6 as she has no escape, loses all-ins with melees, and gets kited by ranged especially when she has to use her Q to farm most of the time.

You can ban her if you are unable to outplay her, thats a use of the banning system yes so good job there.

She does snowball but the latter part of your statement doesn't even make sense, there is no "skill" in anyone's kit. There is a skillfloor and a skill ceiling/cap, Akali's are both very high. Try playing her and you will realize she isn't that easy to play and has a ton of counterplay especially early, and ESPECIALLY before she gets Hourglass later.

I mean, her recent W change dropped her Armor/MR in fights by 50 each. That's huge. She can catch people out better now though but any assassin can kill anyone that is caught out.

a horse runningOct 25, 20143 votes

Pink wards are a counter... lol. she literally loses one of her abilities for nothing

Well, no. She still gets sped up and you just lost 100 gold for the pink. So to say she loses one of her abilities for nothing is a blatant misnomer.

xSwimmxOct 25, 20143 votes

Akali's are both very high. Try playing her and you will realize she isn't that easy to play and has a ton of counterplay especially early, and ESPECIALLY before she gets Hourglass later.

I've used her already. The very first time i ever used her I carried the team with double digit kills. Shes not hard and she doesn't get punished for not missing any of her abilities because she cant miss her abilities cause they are point and click. Her ult is a low CD with 3 gap closers that she can never miss. That's a very huge problem. Shes a high reward champion with no risk involved.

I mean, her recent W change dropped her Armor/MR in fights by 50 each. That's huge. She can catch people out better now though but any assassin can kill anyone that is caught out.

I don't think they were 50. Less than that. But the move speed is really good. She never had a problem catching people out to begin with.

DysekeruOct 25, 20141 votes

Pink wards aren't a counter.

You don't carry that many. All she has to do then is bait your pink ward then wait for shroud to go off CD. LOL.

Even still a Pink ward doesn't stop her ability to spell vamp back herself to full health in two attacks while you lose most of yours.

Akali is broken/op/toxic. I have her permabanned cause I'm suck of my team feeding her cause she roams for free kills and teams are too dumb to ward.

Snowballs way too easy. No inherent skill in her kit.

Thank you. Great post.

Dominick DestineOct 25, 20147 votes

Pink Wards do not counter Akali.

It just finally let's you fight her if she so chooses to remain.

67chromeOct 25, 20145 votes

Akali's mostly just good at stomping public games. Her kit's set up to punish players that are out of position.

To deal with her - purchase a pink ward and her stealth cloud is completely useless. She stealths, massive bull's eye for the ward. Really wish their was a ward to make Fizz's Playful/Trickster useless, Jax's Counterstrike useless, or Yasou's Wind Wall useless. Nope. You can obliterate Akali's key survival mechanic and de-aggro technique though.

Also - dueling potential and team-fight potential are not the same among champions, and pretty much always counter-balanced with one another. Akali is really solid in 1v1 situations. She's really not in 5v5 situations. Group up and team-fight and it circumvents a considerable amount of her strengths.

As a marksman, support, or mage - getting caught alone vs. an assassin is there win condition and your loss condition. Don't get caught alone or out of position when facing a champion that's strategic niche is punishing lone, out of position targets.

Arch Mage MagnusOct 25, 20144 votes

I laned top against her the other day with Swain, was a nightmare. Even with my ult she was receiving more health than I was off of her spell vamp. I beat her in lane just because she was greedy as all fack, and I had ignite. Otherwise, she could totally out sustain me, which blew me away.

Kuroi86Oct 25, 20141 votes

What spell vamp did you have?

NarasimhaOct 25, 20141 votes

That sounds like more you then her, honestly. Akali can't beat swain because she can never out-DPS you. The second you root her, she loses everything.

Stars ShaperOct 25, 20144 votes

"CC her" doesn't even apply because if she ends with just 1 hp at the end of the CC you are dead and she is back at full health. Her passive is just out of the world, plus she has one item expecially meant to overpower that passive (gunblade), then she has other 5 slots to play with.

undEAdbUsOct 25, 20142 votes

Didnt play with akali after speed buff, but before I was able to beat her. But pink - dont be greed. If you fight her, she'll try to wait her cd in invis. If you'll put pink after that - you will able to punish her.

SalidfingersOct 25, 20142 votes

The game i see you where playing vs akali you where yasuo.

Akali(Water) is a counter to Yasuo(FIre) accept that.

HayaishiOct 25, 20142 votes

Pink ward is her counter!

Yes wasting 100g to have a CHANCE at killing her.

a horse runningOct 25, 20141 votes

Pink ward is her counter!

Yes wasting 100g to have a CHANCE at killing her.

The people who say "All you have to do is pink" do not understand fully the nature of the game and why you can't make blanket statements like that. It's an ignorant defensive statement to begin with but it still gets used since it's general discussion.

Wînter FoxOct 25, 20142 votes

Upgrade your trinket to the pink one. GG item 3362

forgottenfablesOct 25, 20141 votes

The upgraded Sweeping Lens item 3341 will allow you to see Akali stealthed for 10 seconds. **The reason Akali is good is because people will stand in her shroud while she's stealthed and let her wait out her cooldowns. **

That is her weakest point, when she's blown everything and needs to get her cooldowns back She drops shroud to make it so you can not retaliate, and kill her when she can't fight back. If you let her get them back and the energy to use them of course she's going to blow you to smithereens.

Stars ShaperOct 26, 20141 votes

You guys keeping up the item 2043 argument must realize that it's no the stealth mechanic making her OP but it's the fact that building full offensive she can't be killed in one CC (while most melee carries and mages will perish) and after that she jumps on you, kills you, your family and comes out with enarly full HP.