I think Akali needs a change or buff

ShadowZDancer·8/2/2015, 1:58:15 AM·3 votes·881 views

Akali is one of my favorite champions because she can mid/top/jungle(kinda) and she has a lot of damage, sustain, and invis. But I feel like she only has 2 abilities past laning phase and here's why:

  1. Everyone buys pink wards or just upgrades red trinkets so her w is useless(I guess she still gets the movement speed but in tfs the movement speed desnt help her that much).
  2. Her e is just a waste of energy outside of waveclear. Sometimes the damage can help but most of the time its better to just q-r-aa-q-r-aa-w.

One of my biggest problems with akali is that you can see where her w is so her w is basically just saying, "Put a pink ward/red trinket here". I feel like if Riot gave her back the magic resist/armor on her w she wouldn't be as bad and would see more play. Another thing Riot could do is make her use mana so her e could actually be spammed lategame/midgame and it would also make some items more gold efficient on her like rod of ages or lich bane:). Or they could just reduce the energy cost on e so it could be added into her combo a little better. I'll probably get some hate for this post because people say akali is a "noob champ" or freelo. But thats only because in lower elos nobody buys pinks or red trinkets for her and people don't cc her so she just jumps on the adc really easily. People in mid/high elos usually say shes weak and was weak even before she got nerfed. What do you guys think?

12 Comments

IAMS4T4N8/2/2015, 2:19:36 AM2 votes

don't buff someone with stealth, 3 dashes, a shit ton of sustain, and a shit ton of damage. she's fine now

DJ Siamak8/2/2015, 2:09:57 AM1 votes

maybe a rework since akali's cancer

also she had a ~54% winrate in diamond before they removed her armor/MR on the shroud

ModWulf Helhammer8/2/2015, 2:17:04 AM1 votes

I find her fine. She's a pretty good assassin, where if you get behind, it's pretty hard to catch back up. I use her W in lane to help escape some things, also to start an engage on the enemy midlaner, throwing it in front of me to slow them down and allow me to speed up and gain surprise. Her E is quite powerful, and with Lichbane, you become a pretty strong tower pushing machine, as rank 5 E has a 1 sec cooldown

Akali is SO HOT8/2/2015, 9:34:36 AM1 votes

Bronze/Silver players will never say yes to Akali buffs on Boards m8. Been like that since always because she pubstomps them so hard.