Why are Yasuo and Akali allowed to rebound so hard?

Cheesybox·11/17/2014, 7:31:52 AM·2 votes·852 views

Serious question for the design team. In the case of Yasuo: Shiv and IE and he's basically unstoppable. Akali: Hextech and one fight. Doesn't matter how shut down she is, one fight is all it takes for her to be allowed back into the game. I understand not letting people be useless after getting destroyed in the laning phase cause it sucks to be shut down so hard that you're not allowed to do anything for the next 15-20 minutes, but why are these 2 champions allowed to rebound, not just into a position of power, but blow past every other player? They will be threats and there's no way to prevent it

5 Comments

Grimspeake11/17/2014, 7:46:50 AM3 votes

if yasuo falls far behind in laning phase its gonna be a long time until he can do something viable.

ps. better start stealing those wolf and wraith camps.

Stars Shaper11/17/2014, 8:22:18 AM2 votes

Akali is a champion that must be focused down 24/7 and rendered unable to farm.

Yasuo is such a joke that one stun/root/silence and he is dead. Yes even a silence, because his AAs don't do anything, it's his Q the only form of damage he has.

Scarge11/17/2014, 8:51:35 AM2 votes

Assassins are damage, damage and more damage. They build damage. If you're ahead and tanky, they can do nothing to you. But if you're squishy, then you just have to kill them before they can take you.

Fizz, Akali, Yasuo, LeBlanc, Annie - if they all build full damage, they'll be able to rebound off of a lost lane.

Cheesybox11/17/2014, 8:13:41 AM1 votes

It takes him as long to get a shiv to be a threat again, and since he usually goes gloves first into an avarice, it doesn't take long

Cheesybox11/17/2014, 8:59:24 AM1 votes

Yasuo is such a joke that one stun/root/silence and he is dead. Yes even a silence, because his AAs don't do anything, it's his Q the only form of damage he has.

I had no idea that 90% crit chance with 225% crit damage classifies as "not doing anything"

Assassins are damage, damage and more damage. They build damage. If you're ahead and tanky, they can do nothing to you. But if you're squishy, then you just have to kill them before they can take you.

Fizz, Akali, Yasuo, LeBlanc, Annie - if they all build full damage, they'll be able to rebound off of a lost lane.

Yeah I know that they do, but I'm asking why Yasuo and Akali specifically are allowed to rebound so fucking hard. I'm talking one double kill bot lane and then boom, next thing you know they're 20 kills ahead and full build. It happens without fail. Every time they are in a game they will snowball out of control from a single roam, because they scale so well off so few items