Akali future rework

Hello everyone:

I come here to share my thoughs based on many years playing this champion.

I want to say, as a Akali TRUE main, that I have feared every single change they have made on akali since season 2. My point of view of akali's evolution history is the next:

Akali has always been a All-in champion, as her kit didn't have anything to run away (until recently with the buff speed on W), 3 out of 4 skills are combat focused, and her pasive aswell. At the begining akali's W had a buff on Magic res. and Defense, so it was used as a combat skill too, and sometimes to "try" to run away. So what do you expect of a champion like this? Snowball.

Why I Main akali?:

Since the first time I played her I knew the champion was made to get kills. It was extremely fun to play geting easy kills because she was just broken against new players. Then I reached LvL 30 and started to know that there were champions who were difficult to play against like lee-sin.

So I started to focus on how to survive instead of just killing people like there is no tomorrow, and started to know all the crazy shit you can do with this B. (<3) I also played in a high risk way, to know her limitations, her powerspike momments, and ofcourse, train reflexes for this situations.

I became really good, however, her name is not Yasuo,Yii,Vayne.... AD in general that are broken since they were released, you will not be able to solo 5 people in late, in a more or less balanced game, and much less if your team has fallen behind (regular solo queue stuff). So, if you want to carry, there is 2 ways:

-1: snowball, kill everyone and everything that moves in your eye sight, and hope for the team to follow you and try to win ASAP. However if you get 25 kills, your team falls behind and you reach late game... its pretty much GG unless everything goes extremely well for you.

-2: Get ONLY enough kills to take advantage of your power spike with H.Revolver, then, just do damage and let the kills to the team. Focus on killing the enemy fed champion if it is not tanky, you do tons of damage anyway, and if you die, your fed allie will do the rest if everything its played properly. This way is not cool to play as akali, but is effective if your team is good enough.

Akali has always been a All-in champion, as her kit didn't have anything to run away (until recently with the buff speed on W), 3 out of 4 skills are combat focused, and her pasive aswell. At the begining akali's W had a buff on Magic res. and Defense, so it was used as a combat skill too, and sometimes to "try" to run away. So what do you expect of a champion like this? Snowball.

Major changes have been done on her:

-The key one being the combination Q+E (The ultracombo made akali extremely powerful following the combination of Q+R+E+Q+AA...+R+AA+E+Q+R+AA....add Hextec Revolver+ ignite, no champ could stand the combo alone, it was way too much.) So no more ultra combo.

-Her W was changed a couple of times until now. First, no more defense buffs, instead you get a speed buff wich wasnt really useful for non skilled akali players. And then the addition of the little "flash" wich I personally think its AWESOME, as its good for combat and for runing away.

-Her R now lands you facing the enemy or at his back, depending if you already used her Q on him or not, wich is cool too.

-The passive + H.Revover Hp recover its Brutal, and it gives akali a quite unique combat style that lets you survive the most absurd situations and combats thanks to it.

HOWEVER, the problem is still there, akali's skill set is combat focused, and snowball dependant.

What could be a good change?:

To me the key problem with akali right now is the way the skill set up works:

• Q on its own does no damage, its annoying for the enemy but does nothing. But if you increase the damage to gain some poke then it starts to be broken. So, maybe they could rework this on a skill shot like nidalees lance, and still aply the same passive, however this will make akali very skilled to play. In my opinion Q should stay the same, maybe a little bit faster, with less CD, and with less damage once it breaks.

• E on my opinion its better now than before, but the changes aren much of a deal. It works for plain damage, to get the electrocute pre 6 easier, and farming. This is the one that should suffer the change. I dont know what could suit her kit, however utility comes to my mind, maybe a charge AA like Fiora has, or an AOE like Camille's E.

• W should suffer some changes too. In my opinion its really annoying to have a stealth skill that doesnt give you a big range to use it like other champions have, and it is so easy for the enemy to neutralize (pink ward). I should suggest to give it a Smoke bomb property like Graves has, but in a way that only the champs inside, near you or getting hit by you can see where you are. Giving it much more range of effect, will make it a fun skill, as it will affect both teams, so everybody who is outside will not see whats happening inside, no matter what, and akali will still get the stealth effect bonus.

• R DOES NOT NEED ANY CHANGES!!! IT IS AKALI'S SOUL. PLEASE I REALLY HOPE THEY DONT CHANGE IT!!!!

More Changes:

• Appearance: Akali looks awesome with any skin, and I dont think it need much update.

• Visuals: yes it would be awesome to have more lights, colours and particles on akali's skills, so skins will be affected too.

• Voice: JUST KEEP THE SAME VOICE. It sounds sexy, serious and deadly, just like akali is.

• Lore: Change whatever, It is not as important.

What I mean with all this is that, akali it's awesome to play, because of all her weakneses, the extreme high risk plays, and because the hole game you know there is only one way and probably not return. I like akali because she is not a safe play style champion, and I used to love the "hidden" status some champions had saying something like: This champion is condemned to die.

I love her kit, I love the combos, I love the speed (but not in the Q, is really slow) I love the voice, I love the quotes, I love the skins.

It is a super awesome champion to play, and I really hope you don't change her as much as you have done with Leblanc (not as fun to play, not as much rewarding as it was) or fiora, who lost some identity and her R that was awesome is now shit.

Thank you for reading this and I hope you share your thoughs too!

(Sorry about my poor english)