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Akali is struggling to make impact on a meta of broken adcs and mages

TeemoXNidalee··1 votes·712 views

She's too weak, she can't assassinate anyone anymore. If she jumps on the carry they just pew pew her to death and there's nothing she can do about it. I propose some changes to make Akali at least remotely viable:

Q: The missile speed should be increased and the mark should be detonated by all her abilities.

W: This should blind the enemies like Quinns bird and Graves bomb, that way she can offer some utility even when behind.

E: This should refund the energy cost if a champion is hit or a creep is killed by it, it should be spammable (1 sec cd) but the energy cost restricts it so much. It will also help with Akali's lackluster pushing/farming ability.

R: The damage is negligible and it's weak after the range nerf. Given Akali doesn't have CC, her ult should be the place to add it. It should stun for 1/1.5/2 seconds to let Akali duel the overpowered AD carries and Dot mages.

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Crett5 votes

Akali's a bit of a broken champion herself to be honest. That's not to say she's overpowered, but if she WAS? I don't even want to think about it. Immobile ADC and Mage metas over Assassin metas every day

Anyway, an instant targeted dash with 3 charges should have a 2 second stun? That REfRESHES oN KILLS????

FacerollKatarina3 votes

Akali was nerfed because her kit was unhealthy, NOT because she was overpowered. They're reworking her they already said. I understand she's frustrating to play but her kit was extremely unhealthy. Buffing ALL her abilities is crazy...

TeemoXNidalee1 votes

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Akali was nerfed because her kit was unhealthy, NOT because she was overpowered. They're reworking her they already said. I understand she's frustrating to play but her kit was extremely unhealthy. Buffing ALL her abilities is crazy...

Brand 1shotting whole teams is healthy? At least Akali is all single target.

FacerollKatarina1 votes

Brand doesn't oneshot an entire team lol And his cooldowns are way longer than akali's where she practically has none minus her shroud. Comparing them isn't fair because they are two ENTIRELY different roles (burst mage and assassin)

Helltoken2 votes

You are level 7 and just complained that lux is op. are these based on your recent games?

Akali has immense carry potential, especially now that guinsoo's works on her, and getting lich bane or iceborn guantlet is a guaranteed kill. have you experimented with builds? and are you aware that akali simply has counterplay, like many other champs?

The problem with Akali is that she needs to survive until 6 to be able to all in.

And again, your buff suggestions are OP. you know morgana bind is 2 seconds right? that's enough time to get a double kill... the misile speed corresponds with her ult speed. the W already blinds, but quinn and graves dont blind, they limit vision. you can still land skillshots. your W slows and makes you stealth. E should not be spammable. your ultimate is stupidly strong.

I have a feeling you're not doing the combo's right. Throw a Q, Ult, Auto, Ult E Q Ult Auto. if that doesn't kill a squishy....

And finally, akali is an assassin. She is exactly like fizz and zed. They have no strong CC other than slows, but they have gap closers. Zed has shadows and ultimate, you have a low cooldown ultimate, fizz has E Q and R to get close. Even talon is the same. Guess what, Talon used to silence with his E. It was removed because it was stupidly op. right now, he has no CC other than a slow. Because he is an assassin.

Assassin's goal is to kill. Not to make plays, not to cc, not to initiate engages... to kill and kill only. anivia has CC but she isn't an assassin. Ahri has a single target CC but aoe damage, but she is a mage, not an assassin. you see what I'm on about?

TeemoXNidalee1 votes

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You are level 7 and just complained that lux is op. are these based on your recent games?

Akali has immense carry potential, especially now that guinsoo's works on her, and getting lich bane or iceborn guantlet is a guaranteed kill. have you experimented with builds? and are you aware that akali simply has counterplay, like many other champs?

The problem with Akali is that she needs to survive until 6 to be able to all in.

And again, your buff suggestions are OP. you know morgana bind is 2 seconds right? that's enough time to get a double kill... the misile speed corresponds with her ult speed. the W already blinds, but quinn and graves dont blind, they limit vision. you can still land skillshots. your W slows and makes you stealth. E should not be spammable. your ultimate is stupidly strong.

I have a feeling you're not doing the combo's right. Throw a Q, Ult, Auto, Ult E Q Ult Auto. if that doesn't kill a squishy....

And finally, akali is an assassin. She is exactly like fizz and zed. They have no strong CC other than slows, but they have gap closers. Zed has shadows and ultimate, you have a low cooldown ultimate, fizz has E Q and R to get close. Even talon is the same. Guess what, Talon used to silence with his E. It was removed because it was stupidly op. right now, he has no CC other than a slow. Because he is an assassin.

Assassin's goal is to kill. Not to make plays, not to cc, not to initiate engages... to kill and kill only. anivia has CC but she isn't an assassin. Ahri has a single target CC but aoe damage, but she is a mage, not an assassin. you see what I'm on about?

Akali's goal is to kill but she can't do that, adcs just face tank lifesteal all her pitiful damage and murder her autoattacks. Lux and anivia are better assassins because they kill you from 3178328 range while akali has to get close, also lux and anivia destroy entire teams with their AOE skills.

Helltoken1 votes

Ok i'm really sorry but you need to practice juking. Anivia's Q has SUCH a slow travel time, along with Lux. Akali with thunderlord decree mastery is powerful, and she CAN GET CLOSE with her ultimate ability. there is a difference between assassins and burst mages. Lux is a burst mage, she deals a lot of damage in one go. Assassins do nice close up damage. Also, if youre trying to assassinate adc's late game, yeh, expect lifesteal, but clearly youre not building right.

Instead of complaining about this, how about you try to figure out how to play around it first? I figured out how to play against yasuo, and i also figured out how to counter ADC's. I didn't complain about it. I just thought "Here are the issues. How do I play around em? Yasuo has high mobility. What happens if I take that away?". After Yasuo's mobility is gone, he is nothing.

Lux is nothing if her binding doesn't hit. Her E is harder to hit, and her ulti is harder to hit. If you're snared, then gj you just killed yourself. Her stun is easy to sidestep, so learn to sidestep. Akali isn't getting close enough? get Rylais. You're getting autod? Get zhonyas, or armor, or HP. There are counters to everything. Study them. Learn them.

1374341 votes

No. We don't need to go back to the days where Akali was an unstoppable OP monster.

Dominick Destine1 votes

Akali is the snowballiest champion in the game.

I am glad she is underpowered.

Tahyana1 votes

I don't agree. Akali is a thief class. If you think in terms of MMOs, she's a DPS. If you think a little more narrowly, she's a rogue in WoW. Assassins rely on their opponents being almost dead or otherwise engaged with targets to make the kill. They are squishy, because they are not tanks. They do burst damage (Talon and Katarina are two more.).

You have to build for the situation. Don't rely on the recommended build. Look at video footage of people playing her to learn how to be more effective with her. Don't build mostly MR if you're going up against ADCs. Think penetration and getting and out quickly. That's what you do. You kill quickly and gtfo. You are not built to stand toe to toe with MissFortune , Tristana , or Quinn .

ADCs are designed to kill juggernauts and tanks. Assassins are designed to gank anyone who is low on health.

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