Make Akali's Crescent Slash do magical damage

YumaS2Astral·Jun 26, 2015·1 votes·661 views

Since it can no longer proc "Mark of the Assassin", this is the least useful ability on her kit. It does very low damage and due to its energy cost, it isn't worth using most of time. I think that making it do magic damage would be a good start in making this ability useful, for a couple of reasons. For one, when was the last time that you saw an AD Akali? Second, even an AD Akali would benefit a lot more from Crescent Slash doing magic damage, this is because if opponents were to build armor, Crescent Slash would bypass that. Third, it allows this ability to benefit a lot more from early magic penetration items such as Sorcerer's Shoes.

With the way that Akali is now, she is very clunky. She is supposed to be untradeable, but not only she is clunky, but pink wards render her useless. I don't think that such a buff would make her become overpowered again.

3 Comments

lightdragoon88Jun 26, 20151 votes

The Damage scales off AD and AP.

It better it does physical damage cause then she can still do damage even if they buy MR.

If all her moves did magic damage then after a couple of MR items, she would do little to no damage and be useless. With it scaling off AP yet still doing physical damage, she can deal damage to high MR but low armor enemies.

jDVL20eCYsJun 26, 20151 votes

lets make lux e do physical damage so she still can do damage while when they build lots of mr :)

please there will never bee a situation where her e dealing physical damage is better then magic.

YumaS2AstralJun 26, 20151 votes

For the reason that the other user said, this is not a very good argument. Especially since Akali can buy magic penetration ( item 3135 ) to bypass said magic resistance.

Magic damage is better than physical damage most of time because not every champion gains MR per level, and also because magic damage is harder to itemize against.

Because every champion gains a lot more armor per level when compared to magic resistance, a magic damage skill scaling off AD is better than a physical damage skill scaling off AP.