Why Akali is the most flawed champion in League of Legends history

inferïor jungler·1/7/2019, 3:04:06 PM·6 votes·2,352 views

So, I made some points about one of the most, in my opinion, stupid and practically pick/ban champions.

Movement Speed on passive for hitting spells [35,40,45,50%] for 3s while inside ring, 4s while outside ring

No one is convincing me that giving Akali free movement speed for hitting her Q is a reasonable balance decision, completely removes counterplay for melee champions and is closely tied to another issue I will address

Free Range on passive for hitting a spell and leaving the area with min 35% movement speed.

For some reason, someone at Riot thought to themselves "wouldn't it be so fun to completely invalidate melee champions while we're at it?" and so they did. By adding a Free Range on her passive, Akali never has to even get close to her enemies, combined with the movement speed off her passive and shroud, akali is literally free winning lane since level 3.

1.5s cooldown on Q which heals off PREMITIGATION DAMAGE

Now I like to do a little math here, let's say Akali has hit level 9 and has got item 3020 item 3146 and a item 3165 Disregarding the Runes, Akali now has HP: 1122.9 + 300 = 1422.9 AD: 84.6 + 40 = 125 AP: 0 + 80 + 80 = 160 Now, her next Q will deal: 125 + (0.5 x 125) + (0.65 x 160) = 291.5 = 292 damage. Well that's a pretty good poke ability right? Well it doesn't end there! Since her Q is level 5 she gets 33.3% damage increase on minions and jungle monsters, assuming akali is healing off a minion, we can add that in 292 + (292 x 0.35) = 394 damage Now the most fun part about that is the fact that 40% of the damage she has just dealt, she is also healing for. 394 x 0.4 = 158 hp So at this point Akali heals for more than 10% of her HP for each charged Q. This is all not counting Gunblade's healing, or any runes I remind you.

Q slows for some reason.

Apart from her Q dealing some pretty good damage, for some reason, riot has decided to add a 50% slow, so even if you are close to hitting akali and finishing her off, she can just press one button, heal up and run away.

Shroud is the stupidest fucking ability in the game. W restores energy for no reason

Akali's shroud is one of the most busted abilities in the entire game because it allows multiple things to Akali:

  1. A place to land her E in so she can engage/disengage
  2. Free movement Speed buff
  3. Ability to ignore aa-reliant champions
  4. Dive under turrets with no consequences But fine, whatever atleast it's got a long ass cooldown and has a short duration like ALL stealth abilities, right?

W grants 7 SECOND invisibility for no reason, also true stealth. W has a base cooldown of 11 seconds allowing to a minimum CD of 6 seconds.

So, to sum it up Akali's W: lasts 7 seconds, restores 80 energy on cast. Well it's pretty strong but I wouldn't call it OP if it's just that right? A lot of people have energy restoration and 7 seconds isn't that l-

Akali can re-enter shroud for bonus duration, can extend the entire duration up to 10 seconds. Akali gets bonus movement speed for no reason

Well nevermind then, Akali's W: lasts minimum of 7 seconds; allows Akali to enter and re-enter the shroud while dealing damage to you, healing and regenerating energy while also allowing to prolong the duration to 10 seconds; restores 80 energy on cast, basically granting Akali a refund on her Q; and gives her 40% movement speed for absolutely no reason.

Also let's check out how fast Akali's gonna be running through the shroud, ruining your day. Akali base MS is 345, adding sorc shoes onto that we have 390, assuming akali uses her passive and puts down the shroud she can gain up to **640 MS **while in shroud and fighting the enemy

Feel free to inquire upon a point and/or try and change my mind about how this champion is OP.

31 Comments

Oleandervine1/7/2019, 3:13:42 PM6 votes

Akali eats asphalt against a great deal of melee champions, mainly bruisers who can shrug off her damage and kick her teeth in. Darius, Garen, Nasus, Aatrox, Renekton and more and utterly destroy her. She also struggles against divers like Camille, though she does tend to do well against fighters that have less beef like Fiora, but on the whole, she is by no means able to dominate melee opponents just because of her W, Q and passive.

That's just top lane too, not even factoring in other melee threats in mid lane like Talon, Zed, or Ekko.

And also, she IS NOT the most flawed champion in League of Legends history. That honor is held by the master of reworks himself, Ryze.

Kai Guy1/7/2019, 6:49:28 PM3 votes

Why Akali is the most flawed champion in League of Legends history ?

Im sorry but I have to disagree.

Tfs kit in Alpha. Season 1 Eve. AP Sion. The nightmare that was Release Xin.

Pals Before Gals1/7/2019, 3:47:10 PM2 votes

she squishy as hell in toplane

Moonscourge1/7/2019, 4:18:08 PM2 votes

No, she does not have 640 movement speed in shroud and you saying that just shows how little you actually know.

chipndip11/7/2019, 11:34:06 PM2 votes

I've never seen a competitive game in my life where this many people can be this bent over a character that's almost always complete fucking garbage.

Literally just yesterday my friend was playing Quinn into her in top lane. I thought he'd get ran on since Akali can just W his AAs.

Turns out Akali can't even fight Quinn cause Quinn can just E Akali's E, putting her out of Q range and slowing her so she can't even run from the incoming punish.

Like...hell, what can this champ even do? Even if she has her shroud, do any of you stop to ask yourselves what she can even accomplish if you so much as think through your actions?

OmegaNITRO1/8/2019, 4:24:50 PM2 votes

The hyperbole is crazy, and I've never seen a champ so allegedly broken struggle so hard with such a consistently low win rate.

It's almost like the people complaining don't play Akali and don't know how to fight her. That wouldn't be surprising though, considering how much she's banned.

In reality, Akali is only good in high elo as a situational pick, because you need to be really good on her to take advantage of her strengths and snowball, and a number of champs can beat her outright.

But the hysteria over true stealth and the confirmation bias lead to her being labeled "MOST BUSTED CHAMPION EVAR!!1!1!" when she's far from it.