If you are considering making her "cloud" prevent her from being targeted by turrets. YOU BACK THE FUCK UP AND STOP RIGHT NOW. Invisibility in itself is not a fun mechanic to go up against, especially without oracles. Then this? Please tell me I'm wrong here, and I just misswatched this. But if that's actually what's going on. STOP RIGHT NOW.
Sidenote: stop with the endless mobility please.
TehNACHO3 votesOr
We can calm down and wait on all of these things before we flip our shits.
SuperLuigiLXIV2 votesAnd that's how Riot gets us, by pointing out that it's too late to change things by that point.
TehNACHO3 votesOr that's how we outplay ourselves, like we did with Aatrox or Ornn when we knee-jerked about them and overbuffed them before any of us literally got to play them.
Akali is looking at the opposite problem right now, but ever since the Juggernaut rework, the community has been shooting itself in the foot with "Reddit knows balance" decisions. At the very least, we can wait and see before we knee-jerk again.
SuperLuigiLXIV2 votesReddit might not know balance, but I haven't been impressed by Riot's decisions for nearly two years, so I'm not convinced trusting them is actually any better than trusting Reddit.
Not that I looked at Reddit. I make my own mind up. The problem is that a fundamental part of the game, that turret dives are meant to be dangerous, that turrets mark semi-safe zones, is being subverted in the interests of....I'm really not sure what. More flashy plays? Because one assassin deserves to be safe while diving, even though none of them should and plenty of them are already too safe as it is? I don't know.
But it's not worth whatever Riot thinks they're going to get out of it.
TehNACHO1 votesI don't know
This is the point.
We don't know enough yet. We haven't seen it in practice. We haven't used or interacted with it at all. Everything now is conjecture. If we can wait for 2 weeks post release like at least some people on the Boards suggest for new champions, at least then if you make the exact same argument, you'll have actual anecdotes and tangible evidence to back it up.
LatetotheRace1 votesI don't trust riot with assassins. Period.
SuperLuigiLXIV1 votesNo, that wasn't the point. But you're clearly not interested in hearing the point, so I'm not going to bother anymore. Thanks for playing.
LatetotheRace1 votesYou cannot target when in her smoke shield. Nor can turrets. Official information. Someone needs to tell me how this is ok.
TehNACHO1 votesPerhaps for all her defense her damage is basically that like Shen's: significant over time but in practice actually really slow. This is actually one of the recommendations made by Akali mains many times to slow down her attack patterns not necessarily in clunkiness but in forcing her into a hit and run playstyle.
But as I said in my other response, it's all conjecture at this point. We're theorycrafting with minimal substance. Let this play out for just two weeks before you start screaming of the apocalypse.
LatetotheRace1 votesAfter the last few champion releases, I expect riot to learn towards to poor design direction. Lots of damage, with a stupid mobility/invisibility ability. Think fizz, but less AOE and harder to kill. But idk, we'll have to see.