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New Akali Critique

Illabethe··27 votes·10,634 views

Okay. I've reviewed the kit, artwork, gameplay, and here's what I see:

  1. The rework puts into balance her most broken feature:

Her healing.

The current and last version of Akali was healing far too much off her Passive Twin Discipline/Kamas. Moving the heal onto her W makes this far more manageable.

  1. Mobility is now about more than just chasing.

Her smoke screen is now a dash beacon, and her Kama throw is now a dashing mark. In other words, she can now play multi dimensionally to make up for her reduced heals. I love this, because it can potentially give her a strong escape if you place her smoke screen, Shuriken it, and kill someone with R, and then E back to the smoke screen. It has extremely high potential for outplay potential. I cannot stress how versatile this change is. It's almost like a Pyke kit on mobility.

  1. Her Ult. It's now an aoe, deals different damage types, and more importantly, is NOT infinitely castable if she kills someone. That's far more balanced.

  2. Her Stealth change:

I know a lot of players see a blaring concern about the new smoke cloud: It makes her completely obscured while in it.

However:

-It has a diminishing effective area over time which allows people to reliably skill shot her if they shimmer her, or just guess. It means she's going to have a potential turret harass, but it also means skill shot champs will be MUCH more deadly to her.

  1. Visual: Omfg..... I don't know how ANYONE could argue the new splashes/in game model look ugly. They're gorgeous. Period. One of Riot's best artists drew these and really did homage to her. Even classic looks gorgeous.

I think it's probably going to be one of the most successful reworks for the following reasons:

  1. Akali has no inherent invulnerability buttons. She's still squishy and practical to play against, and has the weakness of needing targets to use her skills.
  2. Her kit's going to have a medium - high skill mastery.
  3. Her heals are down, meaning her play is going to rely more on skill.
  4. Her reset capacity is reduced, meaning less perma snowballs. Meanwhile, her kit will still be impactful.
  5. It's still a powerful kit.

32 Comments

AtheosisX7 votes

I think it's just another overloaded CertainlyT kit that will prove impossible to properly balance.

Illabethe8 votes

Nah. It's heavily gated, and she has no "Wind Wall" etc. Skill shot compositions will destroy her when Zhonya's is not up.

P.S. These are all CertainlyT champs:

Darius -one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds) Thresh - When's the last time we considered Thresh OP? Zyra - Pops like a grape..... Yasuo -The one you like to claim is OP. Kalista - Barely even played. Zoe - The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played. Warwick - Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down. Mordekaiser - Barely played and usually considered a weak champion. Graves - Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion. Caitlyn - Currently in the grave.

I really wish people would stop overgeneralizing.

HonestJohnTheCon10 votes

This isn't helping your case about them being impossible to properly balance. Darius and Thresh were balanced after long sessions of trial and error, but a lot of CertainlyT's champions are either OP or in the dumpster, like Cait/Morde/Kalista etc.

Either that, or they're extremely annoying to play against, which is the more common (and often more valid) complaint.

My Waifu Vanilla1 votes

Except being annoying to play against is subjective and on a person by person basis.

Mokuto Bunshi1 votes

Except when Rito says it... because apparently Aatrox was unhealthy to balance...

Leetri1 votes

Annoying =/= unhealthy. Aatrox was unhealthy because he was a drain tank AA reliant champion, meaning he just jumped in and right clicked on you. Either he had enough stats to drain tank and win or he didn't and he just died.

chipndip11 votes

Morde isn't in the dumpster. The only CT champs that are actually in the dumpster atm are Cait and Kalista. The others actually ARE more or less balanced.

Arakadia2 votes

Kalista is nearly even played because they were forced to gut her due to how bad her design was.

Serika Zero3 votes

{quoted}

Nah. It's heavily gated, and she has no "Wind Wall" etc. Skill shot compositions will destroy her when Zhonya's is not up.

P.S. These are all CertainlyT champs:

Darius -one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds) Guttes after s5 world Thresh - When's the last time we considered Thresh OP? For 2-3 seasons in a row Zyra - Pops like a grape..... The second highest dps support Yasuo -The one you like to claim is OP. Not gutted yet Kalista - Barely even played. Gutted Zoe - The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played. Attempted gutt, not done yet, again it took thresh like 2-3 years to end up balanced Warwick - Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down. And people complain about akali's healing Mordekaiser - Barely played and usually considered a weak champion. Also gutted after worlds Graves - Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion Also gutted in s7 Caitlyn - Currently in the grave. Also gutted

I really wish people would stop overgeneralizing.

I wish people would realize that it takes years to balance his creations or they get gutted so hard to stop being complained about

hhaavviikk2 votes

{quoted}

Nah. It's heavily gated, and she has no "Wind Wall" etc. Skill shot compositions will destroy her when Zhonya's is not up.

P.S. These are all CertainlyT champs:

Darius -one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds) Thresh - When's the last time we considered Thresh OP? Zyra - Pops like a grape..... Yasuo -The one you like to claim is OP. Kalista - Barely even played. Zoe - The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played. Warwick - Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down. Mordekaiser - Barely played and usually considered a weak champion. Graves - Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion. Caitlyn - Currently in the grave.

I really wish people would stop overgeneralizing.

Darius I wouldn't entirely agree with, he shits on allot of melee champs to the point where you might as well not engage with him at all, whiel vs others he completely worthless. thresh has been OP for years and trivialized every other support with his overloaded kits, they had to remove several things from his kit to make him balanced zyra is badly designed as well, you're at the mercy of your plant RNG to win or lose the lane. yasuo also has a horrible design, windwall is 1 of the least fun mechanics that exists in this game and his mobility in laning drives you crazy kalsita another horrible design, at release so broken she could just bunnyhop around all immobile champions and lol at them, kit so broken and badly designed riot had to gur het into unviability zoe another shit design champion, riot nerfsn idalee because the spear fishing playstyle is toxic and horrible to play agaisnt and here we have zoe that does the exact same thing no comment on warwick, not enough experience. mordekaiser another bad design, was so OP on release due to his increased xp and dragon gimick they had to nerf him allot, even now he's being held back by that design graves was a god damn nightmare on release and for several months after untill he got balanced. caitlyn is balanced but traps are still infuriating.

so I count 5 badly designed champions, 1 champions that had such an overloaded kit that it had to have stuff removed from it, darius with his feat or famine design and then graves and caitlyn who were OP and now ok-ish, and you call that a good track record?

you need to realize people don't hate the badly designed champions because they're OP but because, like I said, they're badly designed, it's obnoxious and infuriating having to play against those champions and that's part of their bad design, certainlyt designs with 1 goal in mind: have the champion be fun to play AS, all the while ignoring how it must feel to play AGAINST that champion, hence the result is people absolutely hating allot of the champions he has designed.

noxus is op1 votes

{quoted}

Nah. It's heavily gated, and she has no "Wind Wall" etc. Skill shot compositions will destroy her when Zhonya's is not up.

P.S. These are all CertainlyT champs:

Darius -one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds) Thresh - When's the last time we considered Thresh OP? Zyra - Pops like a grape..... Yasuo -The one you like to claim is OP. Kalista - Barely even played. Zoe - The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played. Warwick - Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down. Mordekaiser - Barely played and usually considered a weak champion. Graves - Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion. Caitlyn - Currently in the grave.

I really wish people would stop overgeneralizing.

what is this list?

Darius not gonna lie i main darius but godam he is scary to lane against if you arent aware of dmg potential. but he is balanced bcuz everybody does dmg.

Thresh thresh is still one of the most versatile champs in the game with high af skill ceiling

Zyra pops like a grape when you jump on her but dam she pressed w twice pressed r and q zhonyas now you are dead .

Yasuo yas isnt op he is obnoxious af he has all the perks of a early game lane bully with the scalings of a hyper carry and his mains are unbearable especially since there is so many and inhales deeply weaboos.

Kalista kalista is barely played because she had to get nerfed to the ground. why you ask? she invalidated melees insane kill pressure lvl 6 with any cc champ especially thresh and ali basically had smite on e. roaming ward on w with percent health dmg. q is negligible. "but she is sooo squishy" ok i bet you could find out if you can even reach her good luck with that obnoxious af champ.

Zoe ok this one doesnt even need to be talked about but im going to anyway.

she has the qualities of an assassin and artillery mage all in one package along with utility this thotapotamus used to be able to get gun blade passive in lane and had immediate kill pressure. Lets not forget the fact that later in the game an even zoe with electrocute and w with any offensive ish spell can one shot you with r+aa+w+elec proc if you are squishy. and fuck her bubble bro.

Warwick ww was pretty sleeper op for a time but now hes fair i dont track alot of him but hes a good champ.

Mordekaiser this champ is a special can of worms.

he literally is not allowed to be viable. For him to be viable means his stats are so strong that noone can compete with him at melee range thanks to a 25% hp shield and the ability to creat a sixth member for his team. also he has no outplay potential he DOES have turnaround potential buts thats not outplaying thats waiting for cd to comeback and start wacking ppl at melee range.

Graves when hes meta he crowds out other picks because he out ranges them he outdamages them. when you see a graves coming at you in your jg and you have no backup you drop everything and leave because you WILL not win this duel.

Caitlyn honestly caitlyn is kinda balanced right now just because she is a lane bully adc with a mediocre mid game. in a meta where ap champs can have there cake and and eat it too in the bot lane shes kinda average against meta picks and her bully potential isnt as scary without a good ranged supp to help her harass.

Akali current akalis problem is that you honest to god can traditionally trade with her and she auto kills anything at 6.

new akali looks almost exactly the same but different theres no doubt in my mind that she has mechanical difficulty in the new rework but it doesnt change the fact that she might play the same style .

this is current akalis trade pattern in top: throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q OH NOOO hes a stronger duelist than me throw q at minion to farm he wants to go in on me throw q w auto or zone him out of cs because surely hes gonna get dis dick if he touches a minion, recall come back get 6 and gg afk over lane opponent who was denied all interactivity. honestly new akali looks more shitty to face after 6 because having a long cd on her shroud doesnt mean anything when she can wait the cd out in a good period of time and be able to harass.

overall ct has a shitty track record and im not gonna hold my breath.

noxus is op1 votes

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what is this list?

Darius not gonna lie i main darius but godam he is scary to lane against if you arent aware of dmg potential. but he is balanced bcuz everybody does dmg and he is predictable with his main dmg source being outplayable.

Thresh thresh is still one of the most versatile champs in the game with high af skill ceiling

Zyra pops like a grape when you jump on her but dam she pressed w twice pressed r and q zhonyas now you are dead .

Yasuo yas isnt op he is obnoxious af he has all the perks of a early game lane bully with the scalings of a hyper carry and his mains are unbearable especially since there is so many and inhales deeply weaboos.

Kalista kalista is barely played because she had to get nerfed to the ground. why you ask? she invalidated melees insane kill pressure lvl 6 with any cc champ especially thresh and ali basically had smite on e. roaming ward on w with percent health dmg. q is negligible. "but she is sooo squishy" ok i bet you could find out if you can even reach her good luck with that obnoxious af champ.

Zoe ok this one doesnt even need to be talked about but im going to anyway.

she has the qualities of an assassin and artillery mage all in one package along with utility this thotapotamus used to be able to get gun blade passive in lane and had immediate kill pressure. Lets not forget the fact that later in the game an even zoe with electrocute and w with any offensive ish spell can one shot you with r+aa+w+elec proc if you are squishy. and fuck her bubble bro.

Warwick ww was pretty sleeper op for a time but now hes fair i dont track alot of him but hes a good champ.

Mordekaiser this champ is a special can of worms.

he literally is not allowed to be viable. For him to be viable means his stats are so strong that noone can compete with him at melee range thanks to a 25% hp shield and the ability to creat a sixth member for his team. also he has no outplay potential he DOES have turnaround potential buts thats not outplaying thats waiting for cd to comeback and start wacking ppl at melee range.

Graves when hes meta he crowds out other picks because he out ranges them he outdamages them. when you see a graves coming at you in your jg and you have no backup you drop everything and leave because you WILL not win this duel.

Caitlyn honestly caitlyn is kinda balanced right now just because she is a lane bully adc with a mediocre mid game. in a meta where ap champs can have there cake and and eat it too in the bot lane shes kinda average against meta picks and her bully potential isnt as scary without a good ranged supp to help her harass.

Akali current akalis problem is that you honest to god can traditionally trade with her and she auto kills anything at 6.

new akali looks almost exactly the same but different theres no doubt in my mind that she has mechanical difficulty in the new rework but it doesnt change the fact that she might play the same style .

this is current akalis trade pattern in top: throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q throw q OH NOOO hes a stronger duelist than me throw q at minion to farm he wants to go in on me throw q w auto or zone him out of cs because surely hes gonna get dis dick if he touches a minion, recall come back get 6 and gg afk over lane opponent who was denied all interactivity. honestly new akali looks more shitty to face after 6 because having a long cd on her shroud doesnt mean anything when she can wait the cd out in a good period of time and be able to harass.

overall ct has a shitty track record and im not gonna hold my breath.

remakoro1 votes

-one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds)

Also was one of the most broken champions for a while. Most people would prefer to lane vs literally anything but not him. He had the same banrate as yasuo and zed for 3 seasons. And he had falled out of favor mostly due to meta shift and mobility creep.

When's the last time we considered Thresh OP?

I never did but he is almost never played atm. People below Dia cant play him at all. And people above Dia know how to play vs him. But he is one of the best supports anyway.

  • Pops like a grape.....

Pops u, right? One of the most disgusting things on the rift.

-The one you like to claim is OP.

No idea about op but annoying as seven billion fucks.

Barely even played.

Cuz her kit is so broken that they had to get her in line - which means make her unplayable. She also suck in this meta cuz she cant oneshot people.

  • The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played.

Aspect of cancer. Take every most hated thing league has and make zoe out of them. Broken kit that cant be balanced. She is either shits on everything or gets shit on by everyone. Rito decided to go with second option.

  • Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down.

Actually balanced.

  • Barely played and usually considered a weak champion.

Rework that no one asked for with dumb features that make no sense to force him into position where he does not belong in the meta where it could not happen. Proceed to shit on him with mobility creep and then pretend he does not exist. He also was insanely broken for a while. After "balancing" him he became what is considered a weak champion. Do you see a pattern here? His champions cant be fucking balanced properly. They either a complete cancer or nonviable.

  • Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion.

Ranged champion that becomes more tanky than many bruisers without buying a single defensive item. But i would say he is more on the balanced side. Relatively.

Currently in the grave.

Currently.

WøOxer1 votes

{quoted}

Nah. It's heavily gated, and she has no "Wind Wall" etc. Skill shot compositions will destroy her when Zhonya's is not up.

P.S. These are all CertainlyT champs:

Darius -one of the most balanced champs (easily zoned by slows and nukeable as a team; crumples to grievous wounds) Thresh - When's the last time we considered Thresh OP? Zyra - Pops like a grape..... Yasuo -The one you like to claim is OP. Kalista - Barely even played. Zoe - The other champion you like to claim is OP, but is barely played. Warwick - Only OP vs people who don't know how to hit skill shots/avoid him. Commonly shut down. Mordekaiser - Barely played and usually considered a weak champion. Graves - Has a high smurfing profile, but generally is not a skilled queue champion. Caitlyn - Currently in the grave.

I really wish people would stop overgeneralizing.

LOL so wrong just please dont post anymore.

ZackTheWaffleMan5 votes

##BringBackTheSideboob

Rıots Bad Client4 votes

I just like how she has a safty net.

Like lets say champion is being dove BY akali, and the immobile mage uses item 3157

She can just sit in the shroud with Nothing the immobile mage can do.

Illabethe3 votes

depends on the immobile mage. if it's a target mage and not a skill shot one, sure. if it's an aoe mage, Akali's likely dead, because turret WILL show where she is in the shroud..... just be untargettable.

My Waifu Vanilla3 votes

Even on live it doesn't matter. If a mage zhonyas on her under tower she can just....walk away....and dive her next wave. Akali uses nothing on live since she doesn't have meaningful cooldowns meaning while you wait for 120 seconds she can just dive you again.

Vlada Cut2 votes

Agreed. ^

remakoro2 votes

You think any of those matters?

WHERE IS THE SIDEBOOB?!

Meep Man1 votes

I actually found the biggest issue with Akali was the fact that her post-6 lanes either ended with "I am going to kill you because you can't escape me" or "I am useless because I don't have enough damage to kill you". Her sustain was a big issue, but her binary nature after post-6 of either too strong or useless till she has a target she can kill was a big issue in my eyes.

Serika Zero1 votes

Please, play the non reworked akali. Thank you. Her healing is absurdly low from her own skill set. Her healing becomes strong due to gunblade, and they didn't delete gunblade.

Abput your second point, her W right now, not post rework, can be used to jump over walls. And its often used as a trading tool in lane. As that's one of her mobility tools. And her ult is used both for engaging and chasing, very very rarrely for escaping. Making your second point moot. Current akali can use her mobility for more than chasing.

For three, sure, you're right, it doesn't reset anymore, you won't get tripple kills+ as easy anymore with akali, but you usually wouldn't get those anyway. Most of the time you would kill 1-2 targets and then escape or die. That didn't change.

4 no comment 5 i can. The new blood moon and nurse skins look disgusting. You know, if you buy a sports car, and pay for a sports car and you end up with a familly toyota, you'd be pissed too

Illabethe1 votes

Her own heal early game is 3 times as powerful as the heal she gets from Gunblade. per combo. Her level 6 heal is 114. Her Gunblade heal off a full combo at level 6 is an additional 32.

So no. It's not weak.

Late game it shifts more toward Hextech but at full build, her passive heals some ~ 500+ and her Gunblade only heals about 150.

You really need to learn the math.

P.S. I can 30/0 the current Akali. I just never play her because she's "not me."

Serika Zero1 votes

"DISCIPLINE OF MIGHT: Akali's first basic attack Heal power heals her for 5 - 60 (based on level) (+ 60% bonus AD) (+ 45% AP) Health icon health." Akali's healing is 15 + 60 bonus ad + 45% ap at lv 6. Assuming you bought 2 long swords by level 6, that's around 23 heal, every 6 seconds (5 seconds at lv7), assuming she's able to auto attack something.

Its not 114 dear. Where did you get that 114 from?

I played akali (used to main her when i had game installed) because she was adorable and easy to play.

Meanwhile, gunblade makes eveyrthing she does to heal her, which is why it skyrockets her heal. http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Akali

I'm 26 and finished computers like 5 years ago, I'm kind of confident in my math. At least the basic stuff like + - / * and %. So, I'm really curious where you got lv6 heal as 114.

Illabethe1 votes

If you only have 2 long swords by level 6 you're seriously doing something wrong. With no kills, mid lane, you should at least have item 3144 or item 3145 by then.

And I was just using a completed item 3146 , because the discussion is the "Heal of her passive" vs "The heal of her item 3146. "

By your 2 long sword logic, item 3146 would heal ZERO at level 6, because it's not even an item yet!

P.S. Assuming she can basic attack someone? Twin Disiplines Procs EVEN IF a skill prevents her auto attack from hitting. It's one part of her kit that cannot be parried/blocked.

I actually tested it in a bot game a sec ago: at level 6 with a Hextech, her auto does a 96 heal on Twin Discipline when running no healing runes at all. The Hextech adds about 20 to the heal. So it takes about 5 abilities for Hextech to add up to the heals of her one basic attack.

If you run Domination/Resolve or Precision/Resolve, you can even get that higher.

Serika Zero1 votes

How in the.... How? Like seriously, around 1k gold is what you have around hitting level 6.

Which for akali you will usually either buy 2 long swords and boots or the hextech item you listed with 1050g cost.

item 3145 40 ap is still less than 20 heal. + 15, thats 35. And still no where near 1000+

Cutlass is 1450 or 1500g iirc. And thats one kill more than hextech revolved. You won't have that at 6.

YOU WON'T HAVE HEXTECH GUNBLADE AT LV 6, not even in b5.

Thats my point, most of akali's healing comes from gunblade. Her actual heal is terrible. And you keep using hextech gunblade to say her heal is broken. While i keep saying gunblade gives akali a huge power spike. Agreeing with you that akali + gunbladde = lots of dmg and healing. BUT THATS THE FUCKING GUNBALDE AND YOU WON'T HAVE ONE IN THE FIRST 10-15 MINUTES DEPENDING ON GAMES

Illabethe1 votes

Once again:

And I was just using a completed item 3146 , because the discussion is the "Heal of her passive" vs "The heal of her item 3146. "

By your 2 long sword logic, item 3146 would heal ZERO at level 6, because it's not even an item yet!

In other words:

By your rationale, there IS no comparison to even put forth at level 6, because the gunblade passive doesn't exist yet (Ie you can only look at the passive, so you cannot make a comparison).

Aka, the only real way to compare her passive vs her Gunblade, is to make one exist. It doesn't matter if it's level 6 or level 18. But, you have Gunblade far before something like level 12, and not too long after level 6, so using level 6 is an easy benchmark.

I'm using Gunblade to compare them BECAUSE IT'S A STAT GIVING ITEM WHICH ALSO BOOSTS HER PASSIVE. It's 80 AP and AD, both which scale her passive heal (not just her friggin 15% from the Gunblade passive). 80 AP + 40 AD rune AP + any other items' AD+AP all feed into her passive. With just a Gunblade, her passive does a 86 Heal. If you look at Gunblade's damage on components of her kit, with just a Gunblade, she gains 15% on Q, 15% on Passive second hit, 5% on E, and 15% on R. Most of those components at just a Gunblade only deals about 100-115 damage.

So..... all in all from blowing her kit once, Gunblade only gives about 55.25 heals from the entire combo.... when the passive gives 86.

At level 18 with item 3146 item 3157 item 3165 item 3135 item 3089 , she has:

153 AD and 660.8 AP pre drakes/baron.

That's a heal of 375.24 from her passive.

Let's get generous and give her 1 second hit passive, 2 Q's, 1 E, and 2 R's at this build on Gunblade heals:

92.5 from Passive 56.91 from Q part 1 X2 71.325 X2 from Mark detonations on auto attacks. 30.93 from E. 57.2 X 2 from R

So if she blows almost her entire kit TWICE.... she has 494.27 heals from Gunblade.

Now.... to get off all those skills (with only 10% CDR)..... takes ....

at least 7.2 seconds for the Q's

In other words..... in the time it takes you to use this combo, Passive heal procs TWICE, for a total of 750.8 Heals.

And if you take away the second Q;

You lose Mark damage #2, Q damage #2.

Which brings your single combo 2 ult heal from Gunblade down to 366.025 heals.

Which means..... for all that gaff and use of skills..... The heal for using Gunblade for ALL skills in 6 seconds ALWAYS is slightly less from the Gunblade than from the passive on Auto from her passive. (375.24 vs 366.025, or 750.8 vs 492.27)

There is not a universe in the game where the passive is a "crappy heal."

Serika Zero1 votes

Oh i see, that's the misunderstanding. I'll reply more when i get home

AR URF1 votes

She looks asian as fuck now.

Acheron161 votes

"Oh her shroud only makes her untargetable by towers, targeted abilities and auto-attacks"

AND WHY IS THAT CONSIDERED OK!?

With the ammount of free dashing and her lack of mana, why would anyone consider that fair?

Oh you playing someone who pretty much only auto-atracks? GG, she's pretty much invulnerable while in shroud.

[sg-lux-2]

Elf04911 votes

While we haven't seen a lot of the numbers that will be going with this kit, I still disagree with several of your points, and am not a fan of the rework at all.

  1. In terms of healing, I really didn't think it was that broken. As someone else already mentioned, most of her ridiculous healing came from gunblade rather than her passive. Furthermore, since we don't know how much healing she can actually get off of her W, we really can't say whether it will be more or less. It's an unknown at this point.

  2. Her kit does seem to have vastly increased mobility, so I recognize that, though I am so looking forward to having my kama be minion blocked, and thereby not activating her passive, so say goodbye to half of her mobility right there. My bigger problem is the cost this is going to come at. I enjoyed playing Akali in part because she was simple and straightforward. Now she is neither of those things, and it feels like Riot has just taken another champion and pushed their skill floor out of reach of most LoL players, just for the sake of 'excitement.' And that really annoys me.

  3. I am intrigued by her ult, but also concerned. It looks like it has short range, but her kit also has more mobility. I'm also concerned that the cooldown could really hurt her, and vastly reduce her potential to actually assassinate people.

  4. This is the part of Akali's kit that seems way strong. I'm sure you've heard why, since everyone seems to be talking about it, so I won't say it all again. Just point out that skill shot champs aren't strong against this. They're better than targeted abilities, but especially with the smoke expanding to a ring, if you can't reveal her, you're chances of hitting her drastically decrease (as opposed to her old, static circle).

  5. Visually, I'm still kinda upset. Her splash arts, especially on her plain skin, absolutely look amazing! I was super excited about the tattoos especially. Then I saw her in game model... she looks like some teenage anime character. And maybe that's what Riot was going for, in which case, that's a dumb decision. She should look like an assassin, and right now she looks like a kid. She needs to look older, and have a darker color scheme.

  6. One final thing I'll add (I might think of other things later): Again, not knowing the numbers on her abilities, I can't say for certain, but it seems like any semblance of wave clear has been totally removed from her kit. crescent slash+sustain is what made her viable in lane, and now she has neither of those things, and doesn't appear to have any great replacements.

Short version: I'll certainly keep an eye on her and try her out, but her in-game visuals need help, and I'm really not excited about what they did to one of my more liked champs. Doesn't seem to feel like her at all.

Illabethe1 votes
  1. Her healing was the problem. No other champions running item 3146 was pulling 30% self HP recovery in a single ability. Akali was/is. Go test it. Her passive heal is MASSIVE. 5-60 + 60% AD and 45% AP. If Akali has just a item 3146 alone, that's about 14 + 51 + 50.4 = 114 heal at level 6. The heal from item 3146 at that stage will only heal her 18 from Q, 14.

114 heals versus 32. There's no comparison. Late game, the numbers may get closer together as basics/marks gain more damage from item 3100 , but her Passive is why she's so strong.

You can literally grievous wounds her and she will still heal 15% hp per Passive proc.

  1. They have a developing footprint of making champions more complex to challenge players. I don't see that as a problem, as long as they still have counterplay.... after all, players have had up to 8 years to get used to very basic, old kits, which are WAY too simple and offer no room for further mastery. To keep league competitive, they DO need to massage your brains and make it more challenging.

  2. Nah. While it's short range, the damage is huge, and it's aoe. Her kit also once mastered is going ton enable those quick R bursts. Also, it couples perfectly with her new shroud. She can R from one side of the could to the other twice and essentially pull it off without being targettable.

  3. I can guarantee I can hit her 90% of the time with Anivia Annie Bard AurelionSol Darius Chogath Cassiopeia Fiddlesticks Galio Garen Karthus Lux MissFortune Ornn Taliyah Zyra Ziggs

Her smoke screen is only as large as Darius's Decimate, which should give you an idea of how to avoid and how to hit her.

And you can see her. If she's next to you, she shimmers. If you Lens her, you can visually see her! You just can't target her.

  1. Her kit is designed to have you max her new Q Five Point Assault. It's got major wave clear at 5 points and even beforehand. It's just not self aoe anymore; it's frontal.

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