Akali...

I quite like her rework, it's just that they nerfed everything other than her W, and then they came to the realisation that that was the case and are now refusing to revert previous nerfs.

Classic Riot.

I failed to see an overloaded kit. She has a slow weaker version of lee sin q on e she has a weaker version of talon w on q. Then she has her signal ability shroud. She doesn't have as hard a burst or as fast a burst as every single other assassin in the game. Pre-nerf, she was still super low winrate. She isn't that good at teamfights, unless your team will actually collapse. This is why she could be used in proplay. I'd be down if they just gave us a weaker shroud and reverted the heal, then gave some of the power budget to e to be actually more useful on ad akali. Even when abusing the shroud for duskblade procs on ad akali, she lacks the burst that ap gets. If autos lowered e cd or something, then maybe ad akali could be useful. It's so weird that riot will release a champ like kaisa who is clearly overloaded and can build ap/ad and be a hyper carry, but champs like akali are only viable a certain way despite having the hybrid scaling potential.

She was fine before the rework . . .and now she is basically unplayable.

They should have released her rework as a 'new champion' and left the original alone.

Yeah would be nice but it's never gonna happen, you just gotta get over it.

I mean I played ev and she got reworked and I cried, then I play Aatrox than he gets reworked. then I play Akali then she gets reworked. Tough life.

I'm not even an Akali player, much less a main, but even I think she needs to be reverted. It's not ok for a champion to have such an overloaded kit but at the same time having no gameplay role between 'complete carry 1v9' and 'heaviest troll ngl'. She's the kind of champion that all of her performance relies on the enemy being malinformed on her abilities; she relies on her abilities (especially W) to kill, but in an unhealthy way.

It's not just me ranting about how 'OP' she is or whatever. I want Akali players to feel good playing her and for people that play Akali to feel like they have ways to beat her as a challenge. As her current loadout stands, I'm afraid that's not possible.

Thank god they got CertainlyT off her development. That guy doesn't know how to make champions that aren't based on ridiculous abilities that put their opponents in the trash.

Wow, a poll without manipulation of a troll option, thank you sir.

No. Current Akali's problem is shroud and arguably the sustain. Old Akali's problem is that she was a stat check assassin with nearly zero interactivity for her opponent. I'd rather have a champion with a couple of stupid mechanics instead of one that's fundamentally flawed.

Yup. Even professor akali, who was invited to riot to test the new akali before it came out, is calling for a revert. There was nothing wrong with the old one...

The new akali was a bit OP, but then they nerfed her r2, then they nerfed her W under turret, w cooldown, and q healing. The only thing they didnt nerf is her stupid E. Akali is now worthless unless you're diamond+ and have 100% mastered her

Great job, riot. Quit f'ing with the champions people enjoy playing.

Pretty sure they'll be able to balance her out at some point or another. Doesn't matter if her kit is overloaded or not. Point and click spells have to go, especially when it's 3 point and click dashes that could be spammed, refreshed on takedown, and chained with a blink on her W. People who think she's overloaded right now fail to admit that akali was always overloaded. (whatever that means since most champions are all counterpicked by another). In some ways, older akali was stronger since she had better wave clear, more burst damage, more sustain, dashes that could be chained and couldn't be dodge. The only downside that old akali had was a terrible early game. You basically were afk until you reached level 6, unless if the enemy was trolling.

Right now, we're seeing a version of akali that still doesn't have as bad of an early game, but her post 6 has gotten way worst since she can't snowball as easily anymore.

The only real buff to akali is the fun factor. Cause no matter how much they nerf her and make her bad, she's superfun to play. Right now, if you want to win games, there's no reason at all to play her. She's basically a troll pick.