Her passive has such a low cool down and is super strong early since it gives her so much sustain in lane. You can't stop her from getting strong since if you keep poking her she'll just heal it off and probably out farm you since you're focusing on poking her. I suggest maybe nerfing the base healing on her passive.
Oh the irony of someone saying akali's early game is strong now.
They are nerfing Doran's shield for next patch. If she proves to be a problem after that they might do something.
But I don't see people calling her a problem and she is not really that popular currently.
They need to increase the cooldowns on her base abilities.
Unlike other assassins like Zed and LeBlanc she has low cooldowns on all her damaging abilities at rank 1. Her cooldowns are so low even before cdr that unlike other assassins, make her a brainless dash in and spam buttons champ like yasuo or riven. You don't even have to know how to combo right, just spam her abilities and you'll kill shit.
She's a Melee with little to no trading potential in lane...of course she would have some sustain, the cooldown is 8 seconds, that's plenty of time to trade against her with any mage or any other assassin, as she won't be able to heal or deal her bonus damage for 8 seconds afterwards and has literally 0 way to trade in lane safely before 6.
She's been weak since the assassin update, i really don't see how you could think she's strong, though she is one of the most efficient snowball assassins. And don't worry she's in line for a VGU so she'll get reworked eventually and probably won't have 90% of her kit anymore.
The thing with Akali is that she actually takes no skill. Everything is point click WTF POINT CLICK ASSASSIN?
The thing with Akali in my opinion is that she snowballs crazily. When I am playing jungle and have Akali in my team, I start camping when I notice that she struggles to get solo kills. After 1-2 kills given to her, she usually starts to snowball the entire game.
She can be pretty hard to shut down, because her healing can reach extremely high amounts and her stickiness is incredible thanks to her ult. Trying to run away from an Akali mostly ends in you getting killed. But fighting her can be pretty tough, too. She has her invisibility pool to wait out cooldowns (and her burst is not to underestimate), if you lack strong AoE skillshots, you will have a hard time punishing her.
