Wait a second, Akali shroud lasts 8 seconds and the cooldown starts on cast??

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Or ranged mid. Since you cannot outtrade her because for some reason she has unlimited sustain and a manaless kit.

as someone who plays mid all the time thats a load of shit

funny how ive been making threads all year long with multiple other people as well as multiple streamers complaining about her and asking riot to nerf her and yet she hasnt been touched.

funny how these people still have a job :/

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Good. A champion as broken and unhealthy as her should get the old Poppy treatment until reworked.

Good then to it with every champion that is broken and unhealthy, starting with all Crit ADCs, Maokai, Ornn, Malzahar, Orianna (should I even continue?).

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You do know that kha cant be perma invisible UNLESS he is out of combat right?

Which Kha just engages 1 v 5?

Edit. this was meant as a question.

She's still affected by AOE which 90% of Top laners are equipped with. Akali isn't a healthy design but honestly her shroud is the least of her problems.

It comes from her ability to Infini-stain and her comeback potential.

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I like how ALL the champs you mentioned don't have the option to immediately go invisible after auto attacking or casting spells. Also how those champs don't have low cd sustain.

Invisibility is a cancer to the game. Sorry people are rightfully complaining about certain unbalanced aspects about your main.

Of course I am an Akali Main, doesn't change the truth of my statement. Also going invisible after casting/AA is actually one of the few mechanics that seperates OTPs from "Normies" because the positioning in the Shroud decides how fast you go invisible again. Not to mention that all of the mentioned Champs (except Twitch) have a reliable escape / defensive. Shaco has R and W (hard CC), Kha has E on RESET with a fairly high range, Vayne has E (etc.). What does Akali have? Oh right her TARGETED R which can only be used on enemies. See her Sustain as the "escape" that other Assassins have.

I may be biased, hell yeah I am but someone like me who mained a Champ for now 4 Seasons knows both strengths and weaknesses. And Akali is a fairly good pick more or less. However let's say Riot makes her W pinkable, then they would have to Amp her damage or sustain or CD/Energy Costs, and I doubt you want to deal with Tank Akali again or? No you don't want to, nobody wants to.

And to all of you who have trouble against Akali Top. Pick. Maokai. Seriously you can't lose as Maokai vs. Akali. Forget Pantheon and alike those do shit to her if she plays it smart. Akali will at no stage of the game be able to kill a Maokai by herself while you can stop her from becoming any sort of threat. If he is banned get Vlad or Malphite (yes Malphite you heard right). And if all strings break and you are an Ad Assassin vs. Akali or ANY Ad Champ just get a damn Hexdrinker.

lmao akali is the weakest she has ever been, stop crying and learn how to play against her xd

Despite popular belief Akali's early game is still really bad unless you let her free farm for the first 10 minutes and do nothing to stop her which, in that case, you absolutely deserve to get stomped on. Now that single target abilities draw minion aggro she can't spam Q on you unless she wants to take a lot of minion damage. Every time you see her go in to try and get some cs poke her down. Her shroud has an 8 second downtime early game and takes up a ton of energy to use so use that time to harass her and poke her out of lane. If she uses shroud every time it's off cooldown she won't have enough energy to keep trading with you.

If you know she has shroud up and she throws a Q out at you that means she'll probably try to shroud blink in your face to proc it so don't just stand there afk and let her hit you for free. If she can't proc her Q on you that means she doesn't get the energy return and loses out on a ton of energy. Don't try to fight her in her shroud at any point in the game unless you are miles ahead of her. This is one of the first rules of League and if you do this you absolutely deserve to lose.

Akali has a good powerspike at level 6 and you need to respect this. If you are mid lane, then you can just freeze the wave near your turret because she won't be able to engage on you without eating a ton of turret damage and lose the trade. If you push it up to her turret you are asking for death if you don't have a way to stop her engage so freeze it near your turret. If you're top lane it is harder to deal with, but the same concept of freezing the wave near your turret still works. Minion management is key against Akali post 6 and if you are good at it, then she can't really do much against you.

If her shroud is down, then she is one of the easiest champs in the game to gank so ask your jungler to hang around top/mid to gank her and put her behind. If you get a lead she won't be able to engage on you as well because you can do more damage to her and win trades. If she manages to get a good lead early game, just like any other Assassin, she'll just keep snowballing if you try to all in her or trade with her so don't do that.

Late Game all you have to do is CC her and camp her shroud with AoE and the sweeper and wait for it to time out before killing her. Tell your ADC to not stand afk in her shroud so they don't die. If you have a braindead support like Lulu or Janna on your team all they have to do is faceroll their keyboard and Akali won't be able to kill them. Don't engage her in 1v2s and 2v3s mid game after she finishes Gunblade because that's where she really excels and wants you to do.

She's really not that hard to beat when you think a little bit.