Akali's win rate decreased to 41% on first day
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Riot game made Akali's W no longer able to cancel spells / autoattacks and increased time to restealth to 1 sec in early and made it depends on game duration rather than on champion's lvl.
This changed a lot of match ups, a lot of friends told me that their match up will heavily change now , Katarina will for instance be able to Q without akali cancelling it and then dash on the dagger to deal aoe damage + use ult.
I think Akali used to hardcounter a lot of champions because of that shroud mechanic which is no longer the case.
can actually play agressive and fling Akali out of her shroud.
before, if he hit ult and used E to remove half of akali's hp, he couldn't follow up with W becuase it got cancelled by W restealth
she couldn't hit E which was almost her entire DPS
Akali will no longer be able to dodge so much stuff, including tower shots
There are just so much abilities / attacks that will hit her now, thinking about
Q
W which can put the wind of win on their side and I think it's good because she no longer hard counters champions without AOE so hard.
I hate riot for a lot of things but this change will make high elo players able to deal with her without permabanning her if they don't play full AOE/DOT champions So thank you for that