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Riot is murdering my Waifu. Akali dont go!!!!!

Shobek·7/17/2018, 5:54:08 AM·2 votes·974 views

Hello friends. Let me first begin by saying that I am not a very good league player; but i've managed to enter diamond ranking 7 times capping at diamond 3 100lp series to d2 twice; with my best win streak being 18 wins in a row from high plat elo to diamond 3 elo.

How did I get there? Remember, i'm not the best player. I got there by covering my weaknesses, maining a limited champion pool, and using the old rune system for very fine tuned strategy.

I had nearly all of my 20 rune pages customized for just 2 champions. Taric as my secondary pick, and Akali as my main pick. My first time into platinum i carried a game as Taric support; I got like 15 kills and snowballed off of a first blood flash diving a turret. The days of manric! I used to love to play him AP mid with Deathfire grasp! :) Gems :)

Taric was sadly MURDERED! We miss you.

Akali. Oh my dying love! What an absolutely fun and flexible champion she used to be! Most of my rune setups were for her :). Akali used to be the kind of champion that while she never showed up in tournaments; with enough mastery you could be a strong influence towards victory consistently. My favorite strats are always those that I think can get me the most consistent victories. I always experimented diversely to be able to find my favorite flavors for the season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fah0DO5BFsM

Take that fun little penta kill :) - You see. Before riot brought ludens to the jungle with offensive smite; smite used to count as a spell. Because smite counted as a spell it would benefit from spell vamp :). Akali's old passive used to grant her spell vamp by stacking attack damage. In the above video i was running smite teleport and smite could heal for up to around 800 at max spell vamp :). This made for great lane sustain and some very unpredictable duels to get the snowball going. Anyone remember spell vamp quints? They were great when this interaction existed :).

I've played akali many different ways for what i felt was the best chances of success given my own personal limitations. She was the champion that i found that let me get into league of legends.

I've adapted my playstyle with all of the nerfs over the years. I found that after the q , e nerf her damage was still strong enough and that the solution was to always have extra movement speed in order to be able to dive and get off her auto attacks.

When riot changed her passive and cut her ultimate damage in half akali was crippled for me but i still managed. It was at this time that i changed to split pushing. I've never enjoyed full glass cannon akali because it is too easy to throw games. WIth the changes to akali this time around it was still possible to win duels even if her burst was demolished and also delayed. I still did well at this time even given cancerous dynamic que. I managed to get to diamond 3 series to d2 focusing on split pushing during that cancer season; though at this point my KDA became atrocious as i started trading objectives for death to win. FEED TO WIN!

This continued reasonably well until the recent rune nerfs / changes. Riot removed Runes and masteries and then created new masteries and is now calling them runes. : ) Love it.

With the previous rune system i could adapt Akali so intricately depending on the match up that i always managed to get by enough to keep my elo high. Since the change i've dropped from plat 2 to gold 5 , back up to gold 1 and now back to gold 3.

I have more distractions now; i'm a father of 2 kids, my son is only 7 months old.

In the past League of Legends would keep me up dreaming of strategy and rune/mastery combinations. Now I really think league has become a play the most op champion zerg fest.

World of Warcraft used to be my home; Ghostcrawler and the other devs ruined that game trying to make it more noob friendy. I feel that the same thing is happening here in league.

I am a strategist. I like games that have deep levels of strategy that let victory happen not because one person could aim better and get head shots; but because the overall team out witted the enemy.

Wow was once like this; Maybe league is still like this. I respect the game. I think its the best around.

But where can I call home once you murder the only champion left that I enjoy playing?

Cant you create siblings instead of murdering champions?

RIP Akali.

I will never forget you in my heart. Though a piece of my soul will die the day that the rework completes.

Why must Riot delete champions? Stop throwing away content that is compelling for your playerbase! You're killing your game!

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6 Comments

Blindsorcerer7/17/2018, 6:24:41 AM3 votes

Why are you just deleting the hero and replacing it with something unrecognizable? Why not just release this new kit under a new name/character and actually balance the old one? It feels like crap that this constantly keeps happening in the game. Let me guess, my Malphite will be next? A hero doesn't sell enough skins or something so they just doesn't get to exist anymore? Or you can't be bothered to actually tune the kit properly on them? Or you just think they are "too dated" and need something "fresh" for some reason, like league heros are fashion styles?

I seriously do not understand this design ideology and its part of why your game is dying its death by a thousand cuts. You're alienating people by straight up removing heros they love to play and giving them 0 replacement for that playstyle or feel. That new Akali looks NOTHING close to what old Akali's kit was and I don't think any amount of tweaks to the abilities in their current forms will change that. She looks like a generic lethality assassin that you guys will probably fail-balance trying to make her hybrid like she was advertised as back in the day.

I just don't get it honestly. I returned to the game, found my familiar favorite hero and fell in love all over again even though there were some strange changes made to her since I had quit but the hero FELT THE SAME AS SHE DID BEFORE PLAY STYLE WISE.

Your rework is some other idea/hero masquerading as Akali and quite frankly the sooner you put the brakes on this design philosophy of destroying old heros the better. Why does the game or a hero just need to be turned on its head every patch it makes no sense, do you actually think this is what draws people to the game?

I guarantee you just ousted a bunch of Akali players from your player base who've probably already had other heroes they loved molested and violated by intern busy-bodies who can't stop this rework madness and just balance the game.

Touch Malphite and I'll be uninstalling again for good. Barely got me to come back to begin with. And don't care if we haven't gotten to try her yet, I saw the abilities. That isn't Akali. That is another hero with Akali's name slapped onto it and you should be absolutely ashamed for going down this route AGAIN.

Blindsorcerer7/17/2018, 6:59:46 AM2 votes

She was literally the only reason I cam back besides Malphite. This is actually so mind numbing that they think its a good decision. The lack of foresight at Riot is definitely Challenger tier.

Blindsorcerer7/17/2018, 7:42:15 AM2 votes

Just played what I assume will be my last game with my precious Akali mid. Teammates made it a great one, literally tears in my eyes. I really don't get why you're taking my hero away that I've put over a thousand hours into Riot. This hurts.

Shobek7/17/2018, 7:27:17 AM1 votes

https://www.leagueofmemories.com/

Superheroes exist in real life.

@Riot can you do something like this please? World of Warcraft is finally doing it after years of requests. It couldn't be very hard to do.

Charge a subscription. I'd gladly play a couple bucks a month to go back to a better time.

Shobek7/17/2018, 10:13:41 PM1 votes

I dont understand why Riot thinks deleting champions is a good idea.

They should just make a new character or a different adaptation of the same character from a different time.

Summoners are pulled into the rift from different places of time and space are they not?