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Average Ahri·7/2/2019, 2:10:05 PM·4 votes·1,709 views

Please just end her suffering. Her win rate is still in the sewer and she's getting hit with the nerf hammer again. Just kill her and let me focus on playing ahri only. Don't make me hesitate when she's available in the lobby. I think we all know who i am talking about here. Akali. The previous mega nerf made her more or less unplayable. Then she got reinvigorated by buffs. I mean her only saving grace was her "shround" even after the buffs. Now with this nerf list on pbe surrender at 20. Your just torturing her. She virtually worthless from the changelist.

Q changed from 70%ap to 80%????? That won't do shit. W is now 25 cd without extension? Are you ret**ded???? What the actually heck??? Plus the removal of obscurity. Meaning she can be spotted via pink???? Decreasing her e dmg??? What?? But why thought????. Its meant as a tool to proc my passive. Oh talking about the passive. And i apologize for my language. WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT? if you dont extend her shround it means she only has 5sec of invisibility. It takes 2sec for her entire kit to go through 1cycle. Q>run>passive>aa>Q. Minus 1sec for dodging and positioning. So W HAS BARELY enough time FOR 2 FUCKING CYCLE. THEN U NERF HER ULT????? IM DONE

18 Comments

Chimp Joker7/2/2019, 2:26:02 PM3 votes

I think the changes on her W are the best changes for Akali. For starters, the cooldown starts once you cast the ability. With the base duration 5-7 secs depending on ranks, the cooldown will actually be 20-18 secs (the current cd being 25 on rank 1 of W). Even if they remove the extension, it doesnt mean they wont consider increasing the duration of her shroud. For all we know Riot might just give her the full duration of 7-9. And on top of that, they will give her 80 energy instead of having to level up the ability to get it. If they did it this way, there would be no reason to max W second anymore but instead max E second which is probably the reason why they are nerfing it a bit. Again everything is a work in progress, so dont get too worked up about it.

You have every reason to be upset/worried about these changes and I can relate, but we'll just have to wait and see.

CarpeConundrum7/2/2019, 2:26:53 PM3 votes

Who the fuck are you talking about?

Kanzler7/2/2019, 4:35:37 PM1 votes

I think OP struggles with reading comprehension. It's probably not even worth trying to explain how this is a buff for akali.

fire2637/2/2019, 5:24:52 PM1 votes

I think the changes are more of a rebalance, finally removing the obscurity from her W and making it invisibility is much better as now more power can be added to the

  • The Q changes are just a flat out buff
  • The W changes will make a few more things reveal her, but its cooldown is actually buffed now as cooldown begins when the shroud starts. Not to mention the energy restored is another buff, and this should allow for more counterplay in pro play, which could leads to more buffs down the line.
  • The E may look at first like a nerf, but it scales with total AD now which makes up for base damage nerfs, and it even has a 50% AP ratio which is huge, giving her a lot more damage on E, although perhaps slightly less early game.
  • Ults a nerf, but they are giving her power elsewhere so I'm not sure it matters too much.

Overall, this feels more of a buff than a nerf, and it's also experimental so any of this could change if it does make her worse.

iiGazeii7/2/2019, 6:24:22 PM1 votes

Most of these changes are buffs.

10% more AP ratio on her Q is just straight-up more damage.

Changing her Q into a flat 25 but having the cooldown start immediately is actually a cooldown buff. Before, Akali would need to wait 5-8 seconds for her shroud to expire, and then the 25 second cooldown would start. So it was actually a 30-33 second cooldown. The effective cooldown will be much shorter. She also gets a ton more energy from her shroud now at early ranks. So at level 2, she can Q-auto-Q-auto-W-Q-auto, which she couldn't do before that early.

The base damage of her E got nerfed, but now it scales with TOTAL AD and it gained a pretty heft AP ratio, whereas before it only scaled with BONUS AD. The damage early on is comparable, and the damage with some items is much, much higher. It's tricky to land, but it's much more rewarding now, and engaging with it will do a lot more damage.

Her ult cooldown got nerfed, but it was only buffed in the first place to try to make up for the heavy nerfs they had already given her.

Overall, these PBE changes are a massive buff for Akali.

The thigh guy7/2/2019, 6:56:50 PM1 votes

She still won’t be spotted by pinks. -.- pinks don’t remove stealth. Only camouflage. Which is why pinks sucks ass now

O Fallen Scholar7/2/2019, 7:04:53 PM1 votes

Q is a damage buff. W is a nerf but it's not the end of the world. U gain 80 energy all times and CD starts sooner. E got AP scaling. With both scalings it will definitely do more damage. And with this change, Riot wants u to max E second cus shroud always stays 25 CD. R got CD nerf but that's also whatever because if you're good Akali, ur already deadly and CD doesn't matter that much. It's a nerf for bad players.

Overall, it seems fine to me.