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Attempting to Learn Akali

Frost the Reaper·8/3/2019, 2:14:46 AM·1 votes·1,028 views

It feels bad to try to pick up this champion to learn how she plays. I got her in an ARAM and felt like I was doing alright, so I wanted to start trying to learn her for SR. I've played 2 games so far, the 1st game was against a Zed who was kind enough to at least let me attempt things before he Styled on me. We talked in all chat and he gave me a pointer or two when I absolutely failed. However the 2nd game, that just made me quit for the day. Neeko with Glacial Augment vs Akali. . . Yeah needless to say I was so far behind that I didn't finish an item until 25 minutes into the game.

I just want to ask why Akali feels so useless if you can't just absolutely stomp lane. I understand she's an assassin but I've beaten Zed/Talon/Leblancs in lane before and they still at least had impact on the game when they at least got a neat little out play / surprise off. Even when I was getting help from bot and jungle I still felt as if I had 0 impact.

I know this will probably be downvoted / lol you can't play akali omegalul but why does she feel so bad to play for someone who just picked her up?

5 Comments

Zardo8/3/2019, 2:22:29 AM3 votes

She's a high skill floor extremely high skillcap champion. You need to know how to play lane out well and you have to know your combos and the exact damage they'll do really well or you're going to have a bad time on her.

DOUBLE TAPPED E8/3/2019, 3:34:22 AM2 votes

A thing I've noticed about Akali Diana Ekko Fizz Kassadin Katarina (read: Melee AP Assassins) is that it's all about surviving the early game until you reach certain powerspikes in the form of level / item thresholds. (Kat lv 2/3/6 powerspike, Akali lv 6 with Revolver, etc.)

You will be outranged and outmatched in basically every lane, and it's key to take advantage of any small windows of opportunity your opponent gives you by mispositioning or using important abilities.

For an example, if I'm playing Akali vs Anivia, the lane is all about her Q cooldown. If she hits the stun, you lose the trade, if she misses the stun, you have an opportunity to harass.

Basically if you are even with your opponent on a melee assassin, you rely on them making mistakes for you to capitalize on, and if they don't it's down to you having experience enough on the champion to FORCE them to make mistakes.

Hopefully this makes some sense / was helpful...