You kinda killed the Akali with the new nerf

AspectOfMight·1/31/2019, 2:48:01 PM·2 votes·1,257 views

Yo, I'm back to whine more about the changes! Well, lets just cut to the case. Don't REMOVE the Heal from Akali's q. The heal is whats gonna kill Akali. You see, she has to take Doran's shield, and most people take fleet footwork on her just because they don't have enough sustain to even get to level 6. That's worse than Kassadin! Yes, I agree she does need a change, but removing the heal is not the way. About the w. I'm kinda bummed but I mean that's alright. people were whining too much about it, so riot was forced to do something about it.

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Red Mage1/31/2019, 2:59:13 PM3 votes

To be fair she still has item 3146 which everyone akali rushes for the 1st item. This will give her a really weak laning phase but she'll still be strong out of laning phase. The nerf to her self healing ability is a window of weakness which she currently lacks.

Red Mage1/31/2019, 2:51:17 PM2 votes

Akali has been top dog for to long, if I had it my way I'd nerf her heal, her stealth, her stun on her ultimate, increase the energy cost of all skills by double & increase the CD on her shroud by 20 seconds.

ModThe Djinn1/31/2019, 6:06:46 PM1 votes

They're aware they may have hit her very strongly:

Meddler: It's certainly possible that removing Akali's healing leaves her in a pretty rough spot overall though. In cases like this where a champion's been problematic for an extended period we've had decent success in the past by taking a heavy pass to them to remove issues, then going back and adding power shortly after if needed once we've seen where they've landed.

woodvsmurph1/31/2019, 6:09:37 PM1 votes

Akali rework was a fine concept... but it lacked proper counterplay. Rather than introduce proper counterplay of which there have been several great suggestions on the boards... they just gut her. Cuz making a champ trash is somehow a better solution than either reverting or... just giving proper counterplay? Still after how many champs this has been done to or is currently slowly being done to akali mains shouldn't be surprised.

I mean I think she can still reach a decent point eventually, but getting to those items point to make her playable will be more painful than anything adc's have experienced or supposedly experienced bot... and those guys know how to make an ant hill seem like Mount Everest when they complain.

Forsaken66662/1/2019, 8:15:03 PM1 votes

To be honest rather than gutting her like this they would just bring back the old akali ..... they already gutted ryze why not kill everyone i love to play.