Akali Rework is Disappointing.

juju adventures··8 votes·1,535 views

So this post is going to be based off personal gameplay and reddit feedback on the new akali rework. Akali is in shambles. Insanely low win rate after the rework, and let me tell you why. Riot altered her kit to give opponents counterplay opportunities. Thus doing things like giving Akali a flat 2 cooldown on her ult.. On top of a damage reduction on it - They might as well make it do 0 damage, since that's what it does late game. 0 damage. (This makes it much harder to burst down squishies as you can't dance around as often.. Yasuo). Akali is honestly, useless late game now. She cant kill squishies, since she has no damage, her new rework makes her do 0 damage to turrets, she cant kill tanks, she simply lacks early game, late game, and only thrives for a short period of time mid game. Champions like Rengar and Khazix have kits that enable them to kill squishies without counterplay, so we akali mains don't understand why it is akali getting the heavy nerfs for having "no counterplay". Yes, I am fully aware she is receiving ratio buffs in the next update, but these ratio buffs will make no change on her performance. They are buffing the wrong parts of akali. Akali doesn't need more healing, she needs more damage. Her early game is shit, (2 turret hits on a melee minion plus an akali basic attack wont kill the minion, neither will her Q in early stages of the game), her late game is shit, unlike Vayne , her mid game is still below average.... God bless Akali

9 Comments

OneMustFall4 votes

I honestly haven't been impressed with the Assassin reworks. Akali and Katarina are shells of their former selves meanwhile Rengar and Khazix still one shot squishies with no problems and are probably even stronger than were before. I like what they did with Talon but overall I would say the Assassin update has been a pretty big letdown.

AmetDeCrypt3 votes

almost like riot doesn't play their own game anymore.

perenigma2 votes

More often than not nothing's going to happen until (at least) the 15th newest champion drops or a pro complains about her because that's the riot mentality. They don't give a damn about us unless we have money or money from sponsors.

AmetDeCrypt2 votes

I've been playing some kat games and she's actually pretty fun to play what with the big rework and more things to do but akali just desperately needs a rework like that even more now her kit is just all over the place.

5050BS2 votes

Yep and they Buffed it twice on the PBE and it still sucks compared to the other assassins.

Akali is SO HOT2 votes

She's decent for a few minutes during the transition from early to mid game after she gets gunblade, but then after that she becomes basically useless lol.

Wolftastic331 votes

All they had to do was make the passive scale better off base AD and AP, and less off bonus AD and AP

JayceGatsby1 votes

Kata rework is bad. Akali rework is awful. Makes me puke. Where are our beloved assassins? Guess lets play zeds and yasuos now beucase Kata and ESPECIALLY Akali got butchered.

SirLapse1 votes

I literally played Akali without any practice and a random AP rune page against a Galio and got smashed for not knowing what the hell I was doing. Game continued and I was still effective vs. all the squishies and came back. She still is capable of that usual "how did this 0/3 Akali catch up wtf" experience that she's been having since before her rework, but her damage numbers before recent buffs was just too low. It's pretty fine now. If you try to go in every single time you land a Q instead of utilizing the harass, you're not going to have a fun time. She's always taken a high amount of mastery for the early game and turns to mash buttons by mid-game, this is no different except that her early game is way more punishable due to overall lowered stats from passive rework. In exchange it actually gave her amazing mid-game scaling and after being allowed to use it on towers, I especially like where she is at if she gains an advantage.

Katarina is insane right now in all the AoE damage she does along with a strong early, which is something she's never had before. It was "survive lane until lv6." Go look at any high elo Katarina and you'll see how easy it is for them to smash the opponent for any minor misplays.

Kha'Zix and Rengar have power spikes that always hit sooner than most champions, so the meta will favor them. The highest cost efficiency junglers will always have impact and those two champions certainly have it as long as their items have 1100g components that lead into a ~2900g item, which is way less expensive than crit builders. They also fight the jungle camps for lv3 unlike the laners (i.e. Akali) who need to actually work for their kit to open up.

But yeah let's ignore all the numbers and reasons for things being the way they are, call Akali weak cause we obviously played only one game on her in a normal game recently, got perfect KDA, and were unhappy with the success. Right.

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