Akali mains @Rick @Shrieve @Riot

DeathTheHorseman·11/19/2016, 8:22:15 AM·13 votes·1,759 views

Dear Rioters,

If you want clear proof of our concerns about her "small update" you can check this straw pool (was posted on Akali mains reddit 2 days ago)

http://www.strawpoll.me/11673073/r

Currently only 46% plan to stick to Akali.

#You are making half the Akali mains leave her! (There are a few are so outraged they will quit LoL altogether)

Reds, are you seriously going to keep refusing to communicate with us?

A lot of people have been making suggestions so the new Passive doesn't feel horrible to use but all you did is throw slightly bigger numbers at us...

http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/current-pbe-balance-changes.html#balance

To boot that it is on the wrong abilities as well...

  • More damage E (now acts a second Q but AoE => Horay for off tank akali),
  • Less energy W (because you force Akali to shroud in any trade)
  • and more healing passive (which would be good if it wasn't still wasted when you ALL IN at full HP)

Numbers might improve the win rate a bit but they won't necessarily make her fun to play again.

This is NOT what we wanted. We want her ultimate to feel like an Ultimate and the passive to not be wasted in 50% of the scenarios.

You are punishing Akali players that don't build tanky with this new passive!

#I have a whole thread about this here. I spent hours writing it and have kept it as civilised as humanely possible after 6.22 took away everything I loved in Akali.

I have so much salt in me but managed to keep most of it out of that thread there.

#That was the point! The thread was a tribute to Akali = my constructive opinion and sugestions to make the new Akali better(healthy) but still Akali (an awesome ninja).

However, even when you are not attacked you still refused to communicate.

I did my best to give you sugestions for fixing her that are not simply "give back the old one". I argumented my choices and if you can see flaws in my logic do point them out.

Tell me why it should not happen.

Don't just kill my efforts for improvement with your silence.

Rioters, please stop throwing numbers at the champion I loved when you destroyed half of it's identity.

I have been reading the threads and collected things that WE (as in all Akali mains) said we wanted and tweaked them into a compromise of commiting to your new passive.

(empowered AAs instead of the old and vastly superior On-hit+Vamp)

#BUT you really need to work on it a bit to make it more reliable, more ninja and more fun.

We can't really feel it's presence outside of laning... Overtuning it will not be healthy and the current numbers (6.22) just make it a joke.

Whether you believe it or not EVERY Akali main felt the presence of their "stats stick" passive that scaled best when you were a hybrid.

It's what made her viable as a squishy hybrid assassin/fighter with no CC.

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Dear Rioters, will you just keep doing your own thing whithout giving us a single responce until you alienate half the Akali mains?

Are long term players worth so little to Riot now?

We need you to at least reply... how can we reach understanding and compromise without comunication?

#P.S. This is it I am going to report Riot for - refusing to communicate with team

I have given myself the deadline of New Year.

If nothing happens to improve Akali before then I will proceed to show myself out of LoL.

All I feel when I play the new Akal is salt... I am drowning in a sea of salt and I don't think I can keep doing that for an entire season.

#VGU Soon™

(almost certainly not in 2017...)

14 Comments

Akali is SO HOT11/20/2016, 3:04:26 AM3 votes

I actually stopped playing league altogether on this patch because I'm just not having fun anymore with Akali. I was gonna make a fifth Akali montage showcasing the new rework for my youtube channel, but now I've decided not to because it's just lame and there's nothing to show off anymore. I'm not really having much fun playing this game at all anymore and with Akali being ruined this might be the perfect time for me to leave. Only time will tell I guess.

Pierce The Veal11/19/2016, 8:26:15 AM2 votes

Rito is doing what they have always done,

Compeltely ruining the champion for the mains before they proceed to completely make a new champion in a year or two.

At this point it's been made clear that they do not want us around or care for our opinions.

Drink Arizona11/19/2016, 1:02:15 PM2 votes

I play akali on my smurf all the time and I see no issues with the way she is now ? For a crazy range on her blink the damage/ cooldown is completely justified. Her passive heal is perfect for early trades with melee champs and even taking on tanks in the top lane. ESPECIALLY because shes already strong in the jungle as well, the heal will help more. The e doesnt need a buff it needs to empower her autos after using q if anything. I seriously can't imagine how any of these things are a problem considering shroud now cant be rendered useless via pink wards / control wards. its already a high as fuck energy cost as well as the blink being one of the best utility abilities in her kit. she had no escape. just engage or kiting . now she can jump walls and doesnt have to flash. like. Her kit is near perfect now, although I do somewhat agree I wish her ultimate felt more like an ultimate.

DeathTheHorseman11/19/2016, 9:02:09 AM1 votes

So this sinks like every other Akali thread...

Maybe half the mains already moved on.

Radiant Seraph11/19/2016, 12:45:59 PM1 votes

Akali's up for a full VGU in 2017, be patient.

I hope they make her more skillful, I don't want my favourite assassin to be the braindead of the assassins now that Katarina is hilariously harder.

Seenan11/20/2016, 2:46:21 AM1 votes

Best change they can do without reverting her completely is swapping when the passive damage happens (first rather than second). And maybe the W revert.