Dear Akali mains, your wiafu promotes frustration and toxic behavior on both teams, lets fix that.

Before we can have a meaningful discussion about we need to get a few facts clear first.

#1. is probably the most binary champion in league, her only job is to kill enemy champions, if she fails to secure the kill she probably dies. Akali is one of the only champions in the game that brings absolutely nothing to her team but killing power. She has no meaningful utility, objective control, waveclear, poke or anything else to offer her team. #2. When fed has no meaningful counterplay creating a toxic situation for the enemy team. If the opposing team can't do anything about Akali thanks to her high damage, sustain, targeted dashes, resets they run out of constructive options. When people run out of constructive options they flame and blame. #3. When behind has nothing meaningful to offer her team creating a toxic situation for her team. If Akali is behind she is a burden to her team with no redeeming features, at best she can try and secure or steal a few kills after her team mates have already won the fight. If her team is behind she is basically useless unless the enemy team makes a massive mistake. This creates a perfect situation for blaming, flaming and toxic behavior. #4. Snowballs way too easily. Even minor or indirect buffs to Akali cause her to snowball out of control very easily, I hesitate to use the term "no skill", because Akali very definitely requires skill when she is undertuned, but if Akali is even slightly overtuned she basically becomes a free ticket to one division higher than your skills probably deserve. #5. There is no easy fix for that will remove the toxic. Akali's entire identity is built about killing champions, she is going to either need new mechanics that allow counterplay, or a serious dose of utility that allows her to be useful to her team in other ways. Most likely she will require both. Any rework that fails to address how incredibly binary she is will ultimately fail.

So my fellow Gold & Below dwellers, if you accept all of the above as truth you are in a good state of mind to present Rito with valuable feedback about what Akali should feel like, and how to best remove the frustration. Screaming for mechanics to not be removed will either make you biased against a future rework that does fix Akali, or cause Riot to not go far enough, then Akali just gets nerfed again and forgotten about.