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Akali 10.3 Nerfs - Overview by an Old Player

Galinzu·1/23/2020, 1:55:28 AM·9 votes·4,200 views

Dear Riot, I have been playing league for nearly 10 years now .... I have accepted everything, every rework, every f******d up meta, item or anything you could throw at me.Reworks even like Aatrox, that was literally killed after being neglected for 2-3 years....

I Would agree that Akali needed all the 49 nerfs/bugs/fixes she received since her rework. I Would happily agree if you would nerf Akali more because we know she is still very strong if in good player`s hands.

BUT, HOW can you nerf her that way ???

What she needs is not what you want to do to her.... The Problem with the champion right now is that at 2 items (gunblade + whatever) she can 1 Q> Auto with passive > 1 Q and still kill and adc or a squishy champion. The Changes you want to make will not fix that.

Her Damage should be nerfed so she is not able to do that, but basically removing the usefullness of her W agains 100+ champions that CAN and WILL immobilize her is not the solution.

Also making her 150 second cooldown ultimate to a targeted ability considering thats the most CORE ability that makes AKALI the champion we know is just insane, making the R2 Dash Speed that slow, okay thats acceptable, but the R1 Target change should not be there.

PS... Im not an Akali main or akali onetrick or whatever, I play her from time to time and I can feel she is stronger than she should be, BUT that is not the way Dear Riot. I have never written on any board of forum ... but seeing these changes made me feel bad for all those people who have to suffer due to your neglect.

9 Comments

Summoner SpeII1/23/2020, 2:14:41 AM5 votes

riot is going to make her punishable, when hit by cc in shroud gets punished, no longer has infinite ms in shroud but decaying, ult now cannot be used to chase or escape because it can only target enemy champions in range, imo the changes are great as a player who shit on akali in lane but she would never die because of how many escapes she had, but now she will die and get punished before she gets to get her gunblade and 1 shot you

Akali Prime1/23/2020, 3:39:11 AM3 votes

and Zed with item 3147 can oneshot an adc along with Talon Khazix Kayn Shaco i dont see your point here, if anything akali as the slowest ttk of all assassins. why is she the only champion that should be punished for doing her job? i dont get the bias at all.

everything else i can get on board with

IainG101/23/2020, 4:22:05 AM1 votes

What you are suggesting would turn her into more of an AP brawler, like Diana and Ekko could be, except the itemisation for it is non-existent.

I agree with the changes; she should be easier to punish if she makes a bad engage. However, I don;t think she should be the only assassin getting this treatment; most are currently far too safe for their potential burst. As Akali Prime mentioned other assassins can burst as fast if not faster than Akali, yet aren't seeing nerfs, and apart from Shaco, I agree with their list of champions that need to be looked at (Shaco only has a free escape if he's walked up to you without using his blink, and at that point he deserves to get out without repercussions....).

Sir Saltarin1/23/2020, 4:50:12 AM1 votes

Nah

The changes are good, she's too safe now.

Glory971/23/2020, 9:46:49 AM1 votes

The changes are good. A dmg nerf would be the exact wrong step to take right now. Akali might be annoying in soloqueue but she is not that op. There are other champions that perform better. But in competitive play she is broken. In worlds she had super high priority and now that the regional esport start again, we see akali being banned or picked early almost every game. The probleme is, her kit does way too much, when played at the highest level.

This is also not the first time something like this happend. Azir and Kalista have been at that exact same point sometime in the past. If akali got dmg nerfs until she is balanced in proplay she wouldn't even be a champion in soloqueue anymore. Just like when riot nerfed azir's w dmg so hard that he dropped to 40% winrate in soloqeue. If riot just nerfed her dmg, akali would be hit so hard that she probably can't even assassinate anymore even if she gets in melee range of and adc for 5 seconds.

The only appropriate nerfs, would be nerfs to her kit in general. Nerfs so that she is not too strong when her kit is played to perfection, but still has her strenght in assassinating people in soloqueue.

VelvetCrotch1/23/2020, 8:16:07 PM1 votes

totally agree!!! give her -5 movementspeed! jokes aside you are right and i can't agree more. there are too many champs who make her W just useless then. even i was one of the guys who always said true stealth should be removed (cause that was just busted) but THIS this would just kill the purpose of her W entirely. Why not make a complete new spell instead then?

and i personally wouldn't mind the R1 change IF RIOT would make the CD of her ult much lover.

dvd051/26/2020, 3:53:31 PM1 votes

i think a lot of these comments are very bias akali has been nerfed i to the ground so many times and yet people are asking for even more? she’s gonna start with 140 for her q along with other nerfs this will make her unplayable especially with her ult nerf i’m sorry if you guys don’t like skill matchups or if an akali roams to your bot lane but there are many other champs needing nerfs and akali doesn’t need another

Hemulen Magi1/23/2020, 3:08:26 AM1 votes

She should get lower damage ratios and higher base numbers (increased base defenses and base ability damage) in order to reduce snowballing and make her performance more reliable. Lethality should become a hybrid stat, AP assassin items should receive lethality in exchange for reduced AP, some brand new AP lethality items could be released, and Akali (and some other Ap/hybrid slayers) should get some lethality ratios.

She could then build part lethality and part AP bruiser to be a diving skirmisher with just enough damage to finish off targets but with the survivability and slipperyness to freely move around in skirmishes. It will be less toxic than 100-0 assassinations with little counterplay. She will be hard to punish but she will also be less punishing to others.