Akali is, at least at the moment, strong against most AP mids. One of the reasons that she's strong, beyond dealing damage (she's an assassin, she should do damage) is that she can easily chain kills like Katarina due to her ult gaining a charge on kill, combined with her shroud. Is there any reason to justify giving an assassin with an already loaded kit (innate sustain, manaless, triple gapcloser, invisibility) even more kill chaining?
Because otherwise she's useless? She already requires 2+ QRE combos to kill someone if she's not fed, and if she takes more charges to kill someone (say she catches out a tank and they go on a merry chase with Akali ending with a kill but using all 3 charges) she has no kill potential until the ult is back. As an assassin, her only way to get kills requires her ultimate, usually used multiple times on one target early. Without resets she'd be in the same situation Diana is in; you can jump in and kill someone, but then you die in the middle of everyone with no escapes.
Tried out Akali on a free weekend. Found out, even after getting ult, couldn't 100-0 someone in one combo like people claim she does.
Had to drop shroud and do the same combo again once or twice just to get a kill, plus ignite...
Coming from an outside perspective, how is Akali so op again?
Funny, she doesn't even have mobility pre-6, her burst is mediocre compared to champs like Kat and Leblanc, and she gets shut down by vision ward, exhaust, and huge burst. The reason to justify giving her reset on ult stack is because champions like Ezreal and Vayne exists, you'd need at least three stacks just to chase down this one person.
To stomp newbs, duh.
Is there any reason to justify giving an assassin with an already loaded kit (innate sustain, manaless, triple gapcloser, invisibility) even more kill chaining?
Akali's kit isn't that loaded with stuff.
You can point out any champion doing 10+ different things with their kit. Abilities tend to actually do things, separating champions a fair deal from the purple caster minions. Saying "overloaded" mostly strikes me as bitterness you lost to an Akali. Especially considering most abilities do about 2 things - such as damage and applying a -ATK debuff, damage and CC, armor and +AD, damage in an extremely interesting fashion, etc. Akali's abilities really don't do more than 2 things - Crescent Slash is actually really underwhelming and dull, so it's not like Akali's really standing out with an amaze-balls kit.
As for the actual justification of chaining kills and re-sets:
Marksman can take out a solid 50% of an enemy team's collective HP with solid positioning skills around once every match by accident. Mages can take out a solid 50% of an enemy team's collective HP with a solid QWER combo because AoE once every match by accident. Assassins can take out 50% of an enemy team's collective HP with a solid re-set chain once every match by accident.
All 3 of those damage rolls can take out a greater % of an enemy team's collective health when played skillfully (or with a skill miss-match).
If you cap an assassin at 20% of an enemy team's collective HP, then that champion becomes extremely limited in their contributions to the team as a damage-dealer. They can easily fall into Yorick/Urgot territory where they're good in lane and total garbage outside of it, or fall into pre-rework Rengar/Yi terrirtory - where you back-door 24/7 with them, then back door some more.
