When you are Akali, and the enemy brought a pink ward.

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I have no idea why I'm being downvoted.

Akali can spellvamp off wards, so if enemies are dead she can just kill that pink ward.

My point was that just for TT, they could revert Twilight Shroud to this:

While within the cloud, Akali is stealthed and gains 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 bonus armor and magic resistance.

...although they could always tweak the numbers.

You're funny. xD

I've yet to lose lane to an Akali. She can't out trade early. Force her to roam, take her towers. If your teammates are smart then they will eat her alive for being behind.

People forget how much Akali relies on that shroud to get her cooldowns up. Without it, she's near impossible to win trades with unless fed.

Trust me, the build is extremely effective, and is great to offer some alternative strengths to her normal build. You laugh now but I am afraid of her getting a nerf due to how effective this can be.

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Thank you for looking at the stats only and then try to justify something from base assumptions without experience. If anything, this build increases her damage if you play it right, as you don't just button mash like ap akali, but this has many strengths over ap. One of them is that you essentially don't have to worry about cooldowns for damage, because you will be using empowered autoattacks and e, which is on a 0.6 second cooldown with CDR. This means that you rarely have to use shroud to wait for cooldowns, and never have to use ulti for damage, instead you have 3 actual gap closers/reposition tools which are not as essential to execute a target compared to ap akali, and instead give you tons of mobility. now, spamming e will cause you to run out of energy after about 6 uses, but if you are landing them with auto attacks this will already be enough to kill pretty much anyone. The reason you can get in so many e's is that by late game, you don't really use q as it is a waste of energy and the animation time. The reason I think this build works (if you can get to it) is because of the core items . The hydra and iceborn together give you massive aoe damage on your autoattacks plus the reset from the hydra active, so when combined with the damage from the e spam, transforms her into an aoe death bot. The next three items are pretty variable, I like the three above because visage increases the healing from her passive spellvamp and built lifesteal, and the mallet + bork combo basically give her a permaslow on her autoattacks. Obviously doing this forsakes boots, but I think it's forgivable in some cases due to the 100% speed boost from w, her 3 gap closers with r, and the two active slows and the passive aa slow from this item build. You can swap out a lot of items though, such as or even throw in some ap . The build is pretty variable, but the idea is the same: akali can deal massive assassin damage without being squishy or relying on cooldowns to deal damage. You dismiss this because you haven't seen it before, or haven't seen it after her bufffs, but in reality this build is incredibly strong if you can farm well early (though that is true of ap akali as well)

I don't have to read this drawn out post to know what this build does for her. It gives her way more sustain and gives her more defenses. You are making her more about utility with items like , and you are making her into more of a sustained damage champ than her super bursty AP build. The reason why people downvoted the build in the first place, is because it just isn't that good in comparison to AP akali. It's just like saying bruiser or tank is OP, his kit straight up does better with a full damage build than the latter. It is mostly because if you wanted a champion to jump onto a target and stick to it until it dies, why not just play . Not to mention, akali is already very item dependent and doing this build delays powerspikes even further than ap akali.