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Akali Was Done Dirty

MetaGeek·3/2/2020, 6:48:59 AM·1 votes·3,230 views

I really don't understand the gutting of Akali, I've been told she's ridiculous in high elo but how and why? She's weak to CC and is squishy the same thing everyone tells me about Yi when I complain about him and he's easier to play though he relies more in dps than burst they seem about equal in annoyance to me, they either pop off or fall off but now poor girl has a roughly 30 percent win rate and before it was 40, maybe it's just me down here in casual play but was that big a nerf needed when Sett is still running around broken as hell and brain dead to play while a champ that takes skill is nerfed until she's unplayable at most levels?

Honesty right now it feels like everyone has a good counter to Akali, Yasuo has wind wall stops her shrunken, zed is simply more mobile and disappears but admittedly that one comes down to skill but most of all ANY MAGE WITH CC! Any mage with a root, stun, charm etc.l and any range means most angles get her killed unless she baits the cc first. Yes she has the stealth cloud but that has a long cool down and only makes her harder to hit not invincible, how is this more overpowered than say Yi's alpha strike which is up every few seconds and makes him invulrable or Jax and his Defensive stance ? Or anything else that just says no to damage and majes tower diving a non issue.

I simply don't get why she's nerfed so hard while juggernauts and dps tanks that people hate get a free pass.

10 Comments

LegitBusinessman3/2/2020, 8:56:30 AM6 votes

Get fucked akali abusers.

Thefrostyviking3/2/2020, 1:14:00 PM3 votes

Problem with Akali was that in good hands she was a absolute monstrosity that was consistently present in 80 to 100% of pro games winning almost anything.

Gameplay wise her second issue is that she utterly shits on majority of melee as long as the player knows how the champ works and we´re not talking just a little but more like drowning them in shit and also tossing giant metal bars ontop-

Her Q-auto spam has such has such a disgustingly low cooldown and high damage combo that most melee just could never hope to fight her, especially not with the shroud in play to greatly reduce the amount of time one has to hit her back.

I think it was like only Irelia who was fast enough if the Irelia was very good.

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It was only after she saw many many nerfs and finally something to make her shroud less of a "haha free win against melee" thing that she stopped being an issue but now we´re in a spot where she´s been nerfed all over with the actual problems only getting hit at the very end.

But with those problems fixed she is a bit weak and so riot hotfix it by giving her more damage which.....is not really what she needed as far as i know.

Flower Bòy3/2/2020, 9:57:16 AM1 votes

Windwall stopping shuriken does nothing,zed its indeed a skill matchup but he ends up outscaled,any mage with cc couldnt hit a 3 dashes 2 movement speed champion,also,akali was played top against bruisers who legit couldnt do anything against her so thats why she got nerfed so hard,0 counterplay

TrueDamage Ninja3/2/2020, 7:23:35 AM1 votes

Bring back R1 free cast during E2 and I'd be happy.

Maybe reduce the energy cost of her Q per level (120-80) and let her E2 trigger auto attacks.

Pixela7e3/2/2020, 2:22:20 PM1 votes

While Akali isn't as broken as she used to be, she is still extremely hard to kill in the hands of someone who actually knows her. The problem is riot balanced her kit around pro play, and every nerf they have made only really affects people who don't one-trick her. She has an extremely high skill cap, and if you don't master her kit she's basically useless.

Is this fair? No, not really.

Riot should balance her around being a lot more playable in the lower ranks or for people newer to her while gutting her pro performance, since that's where she really shines. Any one-trick can still dominate with her current kit because her problem isn't JUST her energy costs or her ult direction. It's the fact that her kit keeps her just out of range for pretty much every melee matchup, and her shroud is a get out of jail free card. She can hit you but you can't hit her. Changing akali in this way would probably mean reworking her again so i don't see this happening, especially since she's basically League's poster girl.

There is more to a champion than just their winrates.

Śhunpo3/2/2020, 6:35:58 PM1 votes

Just revert her at this point until they can release a rework that isn't full-blown cancer to face.

Modl Ryden l3/2/2020, 10:15:27 PM1 votes

She was nerfed pretty hard because since Akalis rework, she's been thriving patch after patch after patch. Despite her sustain getting nerfed, Fleet Footwork ended up being a fantastic Keystone for her, to get retreat/chasing advantage with her passive and still going about even in healing in her previous state. Then they nerfed her burst and somehow Conqueror ended up being a fantastic Keystone for her as well, allowing her to get equal amounts of healing from previous builds while essentially being able to do prolonged damage, almost like a DPS assassin. Less about burst and more about sustained damage. So then Riot finally cut down on what made her so good, her Free Cast R1 and her Energy Restoration from her passive. So that way she's put into single target burst damage from being able to slice and dice her way through a teamfight.

That's the only reason why I think she was nerfed so hard, despite all the crying on the forums. I don't think they needed to hit her Energy Restoration on her passive, the R1 being a targetted cast was good enough I think.