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Akali needs to be tuned or reworked, she makes me want to quit LOL

IS1d51f7fd0f8e2764617b0·12/30/2014, 2:58:34 AM·7 votes·1,553 views

So yeah, i just played some Akali after the enemy team forgot to ban her, and as usual we won.

However i do not feel proud, or happy, or skilled. Simply because i pretty much did horribly early game, but after 6 the ball started rolling and soon i was unstoppable as is the standard.

I do not like Akali, in fact i hate her and i dislike playing assasins. Ranged mages or heavy tanky supports are more my forte, but i realized since i cant beat em, join em.

And beating a skilled Akali is impossible right now if you do not have a 5 man coordinated team in voice chat.

I know she has a weak early game, but after 6, she really offers** NO** counter-play whatsoever, she has 3 dashes that are TARGETED with a ELO-whopping range of 700, she has insanely good ratios considering her base damage and passive spellvamp. And just to round it off her base health and resists are pretty darn decent as well.

Her insane single target damage combined with her healing and general sustainability makes her almost impossible to trade with, and if she is fed you are going to die. Period.

Since the Pink ward nerf, you can no longer ward mid lane and hope its still there, the enemy jungler or the akali will quickly dispose of it, Oracles now requires you to reach a certain level, but by that time Akali will already be strolling to other lanes starting her trollol-roll to victory.

And once this ball of insane burst damage is rolling vision granting items will only give you the pleasure of seing an akali with void staff melt your tank and carries like butter on a frying pan.

Now is the part where Akali mains chime in and say "But landing my Wombo-Combo is really hard mister"

And here is the part where i shout back Chogath "No pressing Q-R-W-E-R-auto is not difficult at all with two of your abilities being freaking point and click, and the rest being AOE.

The popular argument that building magic resist counters her is bull as well, her ratios are good, and if she gets rolling she will buy more and more ap while you are panicking trying to buy that precious null-magic-mantle item 1033.

And when you finally have some magic-resist items item 3102 she will simply have bought a void staff item 3135 and once more you face death.

To actually kill this toxic abomination you will need coordinated CC and burst from 5 people, too bad her team will not allow that ...

She is such a cheap and toxic character that i loose all passion to play, I even get angry just by seeing her picked nowadays.

So please revamp her, gut her, destroy her, i do not care, right now i just don't care about anything Akali anymore.

And all Akali troll mains who are about to call me a scrub, PLEASE do tell me how to counter her, because while playing her i have not met any real problems besides her weak eary game.

So no ... A pink wont do ...

21 Comments

Agent209012/30/2014, 5:03:18 AM3 votes

I like playing Viktor against an Akali. As soon as she jumps on me, put my gravity field on top of myself and blow her up. She stands no chance. When she starts roaming, I can either take the tower or follow her. As soon as she jumps on someone, I put the gravity field on her and blow her up.

Viktor makes Akali useless.

Join the Glorious Evolution!

Sara Leah12/30/2014, 4:31:52 PM2 votes

after 6 she loves her smoke screen drop your pink ward in it she is amazingly visable then..

dang 4 got I used it.. I now have no pink ward =/ sorakas skills cast in middle of it - silence and star called a couple times - she runs

this is just two ways there are others.. unfortunately no one buys pink wards cause the 100 gp is too much to stay alive they rather have it for some build they are making

is she strong after level 6? yes... unbeatable 1 v 1?? no

Leblancs Boob12/30/2014, 5:03:52 AM2 votes

She isn't particularly OP but I agree her kit just offers no counterplay. Burst aside, 3x targeted resetting gapclosers makes it impossible to outplay an akali. Pink wards only counter her if you're already way ahead of her, since if she catches you alone she can almost guaranteed kill you without ever needing to shroud.

I think the bigger problem is in soloqueue teams are just uncoordinated and can't deal with Akali and so they just get picked off 1 by 1. I'd say she could use a rework just to offer more counterplay to her kit.

Abyssphere12/30/2014, 2:19:46 PM2 votes

I enjoy playing her but she is very easy to play for having such high reward. But I'm hesitant to suggest a rework just because I worry she'll be Cass'd.

She could do with some counterplay but I'm not sure where to inject it. Really her ultimate is the main problem with her having no counterplay because she can gap close all day with it, and of course it's targeted. But at the same time, Shadow Dance is what makes her Akali. I know that won't mean much to you but I'm not a big fan of removing the iconic parts of someone's kit unless they're completely toxic (Poppy's ult) and I don't think Akali's ult is quite that bad.

Wînter Fox12/30/2014, 3:03:27 PM2 votes

Just pink ward her spears bro, l2p

BG hard ff2012/30/2014, 5:00:30 PM1 votes

Yeah people are whining about zed/fizz being op, at least there is this item called QSS that it seems like noone knows about. But vs an akali there is just absolutely no counterplay. remove akali and league is 50% better. when im vs an akali in a ranked game i dodge every time.

AccountaBilabudy12/30/2014, 4:01:37 PM1 votes

wukong is a good lane counter as well fyi. out trades her very hard pre-6. out trades her at 6 cuz of spin to win. his ult = size of shroud.

DefenderOfFaith12/30/2014, 4:56:13 AM1 votes

No, actually a pink does do. Save it for when your jungler comes to help your lane so its a good 2v1 to ensure that you do not waste the pink. You could do it without a jungler, but you'll want to protect your investment by making it a sure kill. So he doesn't have to camp your lane all game, team up with him or her to push the lane and take the mid turret. Akali will then roam and no doubt feed off all your bad teammates... mm nevermind. Ignore that part. I mean ... continue to preassure other lanes and try to zone her from killing your teammates.