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Akali Nerfs

MetaGeek·2/3/2020, 6:23:52 AM·3 votes·2,007 views

I'm sure I'm beating a dead horse at this point but I want to say my piece. Sure Akali is broken in high level play but she has a 40 percent win rate the poor girl.

I actually AGREE with most of the nerfs, less effective escape on W sure, more need to be discerning with her Q sure, its spammy (next can we make yis Q have a massive CD please it's really not ok) but yeah these changes seem fair enough but you already make her W decaying move speed why does her ult need a target on first cast now?

That just seems a step too far to me, nerf damage, make skills cost more, change move speed sure but changing how a skill works on a fundamental level is just evil. Please just keep her ult in tact riot please you let plenty of monsters like Yi and Yasuo ruin low level play can't we get a few things to have pros tear their hair out too?

But on a separate note thank you for nerfing Sett he really did need it a half hp shield evey two seconds my word that's not ok.

4 Comments

Slitorous2/3/2020, 8:34:56 AM5 votes

as a jg main I am counting the days till I can actually gank an akali in lane

Malix Farwin2/3/2020, 11:36:00 AM3 votes

Problem with Akali is that even if you say "well in low elo she sucks" its not really because of low elo itself(as in eam or opponents) but the players. Low elo players take longer to mastery a champion but even there once they do she is a nightmare. In good hads she is overpowered so she needs to be balanced there. If you want to make her easier for less skilled players thats fine but that doesnt mean she doesn't deserve nerfs.

Glory972/3/2020, 8:34:46 AM2 votes

It's better to change how the skill works. Cause otherwise riot will nerf the dmg so hard that you can't do anything no matter how good you are. Trust me I've been through the same thing when riot killed azir for proplay. In season 5 and 6 azir was completly broken in proplay, but riot didn't nerf his kit, they only nerfed the dmg. And when they were finally done with him, the champ was so terrible that I couldn't find success in soloqueue with the champ despite the hundreds of games I've played on him. At that time his winrate in soloqueue was like 41%, and I was more likely to win games if I first timed a meta champ in ranked, than when I played azir.

Only after riot gave azir some kit nerfs with the minirework, was it possible to somewhat balance azir for both proplay and soloqueue. Riot nerfed the aoe dmg of his soldiers, and the attackspeed from his w is only available when you have 3 soldiers.

Even though I opposed any changes to his kit and prefered dmg nerfs for my favourite champion, looking back at it now, the kit nerfs were the best thing riot could do, as it allows azir to at least somewhat viable in soloqueue. He is now at a 47% winrate. It's not good, but if you main him and know his kit in and out you can be successfull with azir and that's infinitly better than what he was after w-dmg nerf in season 6.

It's probably the same with akali. She is so broken in proplay that she need nerfs to how her abilities work. If she is removed from proplay--meta with only dmg-nerfs she'll probably be at a 30-something % winrate in soloqueue.