What are you're thoughts on Akali right now?

Morał Support·7/13/2019, 11:24:28 PM·2 votes·1,997 views

With the upcoming changes to her on the PBE, the akali mains subreddit is basically in chaos right now with a lot of opinions being negative. I started playing Akali recently and I really like her, but a lot of people say she's dead and these changes will only kill her more. It's making me kind of nervous to even play her anymore.

So my question is, what are you're thoughts on Akali's state right now, for those who play her (and against her I guess)? What do you think they should change that'll get her winrate to 50% at least? And what are you're thoughts on the PBE changes? The subreddit isn't hugely active, so I felt like asking the forums would give me a better feel on what the majority think.

4 Comments

Dope Solo7/14/2019, 5:36:54 AM2 votes

The rework had too much shit stuffed into it.

kda akali7/14/2019, 3:51:02 AM1 votes

W nerf is good, Q needs higher ap scaling still. E is a decent buff but it's sort of a pseudo buff because it mostly affects late game and late game you aren't using it to snipe, its mostly used backwards with Q.

I'd say to make her balanced, fix all the bugs she has, then just add an exta 10% ap scaling on Q OR reduce the cd from her ultimate from 120 back to 100 IF the buffs from 9.14 aren't enough.

She is NOT going to be good in proplay after 9.14 anymore as long as Karma LeeSin TwistedFate Morgana are viable picks. TF ult renders Akali useless for a whole fight and proplayers will communicate to save it for when she engages. Riot will finally be able to balance around the average player base which is good.

AmmonSalmon7/17/2019, 4:19:05 AM1 votes

Akali as a rework is a joke. they traded all kinds are things in her kit to make room for the sick W. now that thats gutted its just old w with a stupid hole in the middle (and no blink to edge of w) she needs to get all her old kit back ie the passive procs on towers, healing, and 3 dashes with reset on kill. this whole rework was just a huge nerf at this point. Makes me sick what they do for "pro play" should be looking out for the majority of the people need/want not the few pros. Idk how they could just nerf champs in pro play or whatever the solution is but maybe the other team can just idk ban her if she is such a problem?

iiGazeii7/17/2019, 4:33:20 AM1 votes

The PBE changes are overall a huge buff.

She loses her true stealth and her ult cooldown is back to what it used to be.

However, her Q does more damage, her E got a massive boost in damage, her shroud has a shorter cooldown early, her energy economy is much more consistent, and she's overall just tankier.

At level 3, Akali's Q's each cost 100 energy, and her E costs 30 energy. Since her bar is 200 energy, she can only throw out two Q's before she runs dry. Her passive autos give her 10 energy at that level, and she regains 10 energy per second passively. Right now, she also gets 40 energy when she activates her shroud. In 9.14, that will be doubling to 80 energy.

So, before, Akali's combo was Q(100)-aa(110)-Q(15)-aa(25)-W(70). At that point, she'd need to wait ~3 seconds to get enough energy for a third Q, or she could use her E. Alternatively, if she opens with E, she'd need to either wait an additional 3 seconds to get the energy back before engaging with the E2 (giving them time to walk to a better position), or wait an extra 2 seconds between the first Q and the second. In short, she can't use her whole kit without waiting for energy at that level. She needs more points in Q to spam it.

With these changes, she can do E1(170)-E2-aa(185)-Q(85)-aa(100)-Q(0)-aa(15)-W(95)-Q(0)-aa(10).

TL;DR: She will be able to use every single ability in sequence at level 3 for an absolutely devastating all-in, with three Q's instead of the old two and no downtime between abilities and autos. Not only that, but her damage is also getting a buff. A skilled Akali will be able to delete people.

The added kill pressure from more damage and energy efficiency is extremely worth losing the true stealth.