Isn't that one of the few things she always inherently had in her kit? and won't this just make her skirmishing play style impossible to pull off now that she can be poked down during these extended trades? isn't this just a bad overall change that has no purpose other then killing the champ from ever being used seriously?
Because she's a broken rework
One of the reasons are because she can take any trade and just heal up without any risk. Old akali didnt have that much healing as rework so it felt more balanced.
Ravenous Hunter and 
is plenty
Because assassins don’t need sustain pumped into their kit for a free laning phase.
now that she can be poked down during these extended trades?
That's the point mate, she's an assassin and she should have a window of opportunity to be punished for taking a fight she can't win in 5 seconds or less
I guess she has gunblade for sustain? But yeah, completely removing her heal is pretty overkill. Even playing as akali I wanted her heal toned down but they could've just dropped the numbers a bit, not completely remove it. With all the nerfs they've given to her early game they're just making it harder and harder to scale with her.
Riot balancing team are a bunch of morons. Last game i was playing against a jayce. Constant poke from lvl 1 to 6. If it wasnt for cloth 4pot plus the tiny bit of healing you get from her kit. it would be unsustainable and i would be force to use teleport instead of ignite which means her dmg will be drastically reduce. Ignite is probably hands down the best summoner spell for assassin and all in champs. That is but one of many case i can name you. Now people might think "OH WELL TALON AND ZED CANT HEAL EITHER" well talon and zed has a gap closer PRE 6 TOO. Akali might as well as fucking spread her legs and get pounded until lvl six with no possibility of maintaining a cs gap of 10. Its already hard enough to cs with a melee champ mid because of constant poke and AA. Thus it brings me back, to them forcing us to use TP in order to stand a chance. Think of long range poke heavy champs such as Xerath and lux. They have low mana cost and HUGE range. Akali cannot cap close with her kit pre six. Lest we forget that the E+Q combo is a linear path, So any decent player can use their stun or snare to beat you down.
assassins should not have built in sustain I say this as an Ekko Main.
