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As an Akali player I am honestly disappointed you are replacing my champion with a new champion

Blindsorcerer·7/17/2018, 5:55:52 AM·5 votes·1,491 views

Alright guys. I played a ton of Akali games, I'm THAT guy who just mained the hero non stop when I played the game the most and she was my go to on my casual return to the game.

Why are you just deleting the hero and replacing it with something unrecognizable? Why not just release this new kit under a new name/character and actually balance the old one? It feels like crap that this constantly keeps happening in the game. Let me guess, my Malphite will be next? A hero doesn't sell enough skins or something so they just doesn't get to exist anymore? Or you can't be bothered to actually tune the kit properly on them? Or you just think they are "too dated" and need something "fresh" for some reason, like league heros are fashion styles?

I seriously do not understand this design ideology and its part of why your game is dying its death by a thousand cuts. You're alienating people by straight up removing heros they love to play and giving them 0 replacement for that playstyle or feel. That new Akali looks NOTHING close to what old Akali's kit was and I don't think any amount of tweaks to the abilities in their current forms will change that. She looks like a generic lethality assassin that you guys will probably fail-balance trying to make her hybrid like she was advertised as back in the day.

I just don't get it honestly. I returned to the game, found my familiar favorite hero and fell in love all over again even though there were some strange changes made to her since I had quit but the hero FELT THE SAME AS SHE DID BEFORE PLAY STYLE WISE.

Your rework is some other idea/hero masquerading as Akali and quite frankly the sooner you put the brakes on this design philosophy of destroying old heros the better. Why does the game or a hero just need to be turned on its head every patch it makes no sense, do you actually think this is what draws people to the game?

I guarantee you just ousted a bunch of Akali players from your player base who've probably already had other heroes they loved molested and violated by intern busy-bodies who can't stop this rework madness and just balance the game.

Touch Malphite and I'll be uninstalling again for good. Barely got me to come back to begin with. And don't care if we haven't gotten to try her yet, I saw the abilities. That isn't Akali. That is another hero with Akali's name slapped onto it and you should be absolutely ashamed for going down this route AGAIN.

19 Comments

Khristophoros7/17/2018, 6:02:18 AM8 votes

My perspective as a non-Akali player: After 8 years they're finally removing this toxic piece of shit pubstomper cheeseball.

Steel Lady7/17/2018, 6:27:31 AM5 votes

There was a lot of problems surrounding the old Akali, the new one doesn't feel all to different honestly, she's just not point-and-click anymore and there's so much play potential regarding her kit. Her E sort of feels like her ult and her shroud is still there, just a little different. I don't main Akali personally, but seeing one of the biggest Akali players in the game (Professor Akali)'s outlook on the rework, I can tell that this one was a pretty good one.

Akali has always been one thing: a high-risk, moderate-burst, diving, stealthy assassin, they still kept this niche of an archetype with the new rework and her kit is just a bit more diverse with more options for her to play around.

Honestly, you yourself haven't played her in-game yet, so I don't get why you've already written a 7 paragraph TED talk about how Riot has fucked up with this one again.

AirKingNeo7/17/2018, 8:14:41 AM2 votes

At least she keeps her core mechanics of dashing, stealth, poke in and out.

Crimson Zeppelin7/17/2018, 6:03:46 AM2 votes

She became dead when Rickless "reworked" her in a massive clunkfest. You should be glad they cared and properly reworked her rather than putting her another season in a icebox

Summonah123697/17/2018, 2:22:47 PM1 votes

Atleast I started playing Warwick AFTER the rework, lol.

Sneaky Donald12/11/2018, 12:09:18 PM1 votes

or maybe, you are just extremely bad with the new akali.

AlienPrimate7/17/2018, 6:27:42 AM1 votes

At least you didn't main any of these who actually did get deleted Aatrox Galio Poppy Sion Swain Urgot Yorick

The Bad Touch7/17/2018, 6:29:59 AM1 votes

Agrees... but sadly kids want more new and shiny.

Riot is ran by Blizzard rejects, Tweens, and Streamers. Old league sadly is gone and replaced with 2-pump-chump CoD gameplay.

Gabresol7/17/2018, 2:11:45 PM1 votes

I am always happy when a simple design gets replaced with something that hare more gimmicks to thing about. Akali's kit was very simple and all the skill that she took map awareness and decision making and w timing.