Akali Rework concept to improve shroud and Crescent Slash value
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So we all know that Riot said akali is on the list for a rework at some point.
Now the issue with her is she is either feast or famine and when behind has no real way back in. Her main damage combo is Q R auto Q R auto Q R Auto with perhaps her shroud or Crescent Slash thrown in.
So I am going to try and make a concept to actually make shadows part of her gameplay. The main focus of this is to make her shroud and Crescent Slash more useful given that her shroud is easily countered and her Crescent Slash is currently lacking in synergy with the rest of her kit.
Passive- unchanged
Mark of the Assassin - unchanged except perhaps some damage changes. Still have to actaully aut oattack the target to proc the second part.
Twilight Shroud - in addition to being stealthed now creates 2 shadow clones that look like akali (think of them as but they can be attacked like shaco clones and look like akali) They will be 60 degrees away from akali in the shroud and follow akali's movements to stay 60degrees away but the same distance fro mthe center. These shadows take 40% more damage then the real akali. If one of theses shadows is destroyed the enemy who killed it is blinded for .75 seconds (no damage is taken if a shadows is killed). When akali uses her Mark of the Assassin these shadows will look like they throw a kama at the target but do no extra damage. These shadows will however be able to do damage with Crescent Slash. Also these shadows will take turret damage like a shaco clone or tibbers aka not instantly killed like zyra plants.
Crescent Slash - Akali and her shadows damage targets in range. If a target is hit by more then just akali or one shadow the damage taken is increased by 25% for each additional hit taken. aka 100 damage becomes 125 if hit by 2 and 150 if hit by 3.
Overall goal is to make akali's shroud someplace enemies are less interested in going into and not something that you just put a pink ward into and everything is K. This also allows for Crescent Slash to have more value in akali's kit overall since it would have more use with her shroud.
Shadow Dance- changed to perhaps only 2 charges but damaging a champion will reduce the Charge time by 25% of the current CD. Not fully sure on this one since it is kinda hard to make it play out in my head fully with what CD % reduction would really be balanced. But this would also remove the current get another charge on assist or kill making akali able to kill a second or third target if getting into winning trades with them.
As for lore wise who is to say that some of the forbidden Technics that Zed uses were not being used to some degree already by the clan. It just says Zed is the first ninja in 200 years to unlock the ancient, forbidden ways. It says nothing about the forbidden ways not being used in some lesser form by others and given that akali is the Fist of SHADOWS it would be reasonable to have some level of using the same shadow Technics that zed uses, just not mastered.