Akali's VGU

KaijuJaeger1·2/1/2018, 1:25:23 AM·4 votes·1,554 views
https://imgur.com/G8pxrJB

I am no Akali main by any means but I am a huge fan of New Champions as well as Current Champions' VGU especially when it comes to their character concept and design. Whenever I read the Champion Insights/Origin, I look at some of their concept designs and think "Wow, it would have been awesome if they actually went along with this design!!" but I am sure there could be gameplay reasons or something else as to why those designs weren't chosen instead.

Nevertheless, I am here to talk a little about an Akali's concept design that I thought would be awesome if Riot could somewhat implement in her VGU. Now, I am a sucker for Ninjas especially when they have extremely cool designs/costumes like Shen , Zed , and Kennen similar to that of the famous Ninjas in Mortal Kombat such as Scorpion and Sub-Zero but Akali's seemed to be lacking since it seems there was too much of an effort in making her stand out as a female ninja which didn't give her as awesome of a design, in my opinion, making her look more like Kasumi from the DOA 5 game. That being said while snooping around her concept design in her Universe, I found a design (which I attached as a link) that I thought was absolutely cool, it doesn't stray too far from the theme of other ninjas but gives her some uniqueness as a female ninja as well. It gives her a graceful yet deadly look of an assassin and I think it would be really awesome if a similar design gets implemented in her VGU.

This is just my opinion so it would be awesome to read what others think about Akali's design in relation to other ninjas and what they would like to see in the future. It would also be nice to get a little bit of an input to the decision making that goes makes the design team choose what concept gets launched.

P.S: Can someone teach me how to attach an image nicely to the body of a post instead of attaching a link to follow. Thank you!

5 Comments

Zombie Slayer2/1/2018, 5:23:07 AM2 votes

I saw this thing awhile ago about Akali having a karma bar (Idk who was talking about it) but it was to choose a side for her to either Kinkou or Order of shadow. This would be a pretty cool thing IMO but it would be alot like Kayn's which wouldn't let them want to do it but its still a neat idea.

kattzkitti2/1/2018, 1:57:24 AM1 votes

This art looks good enough that I actually thought it was a leak of her upcoming VGU. I’d kill for her being updated to this, so much better than her current design on multiple levels.

invisiblecat12/1/2018, 3:25:17 AM1 votes

Riot wants to play around her stealth mechanic more, so I think her ultimate, Shadow Dance, should only be strong when she is exiting the shadows By this I mean a shorter Twilight Shroud duration, but make the cooldown shorter Then, whenever she exits stealth, or is in stealth, she can activate her ultimate to dash to the enemy I think this will make her sustain more fair, as her ability to stick to enemies is hindered by her W cooldown, as well as making her less oppressive levels 6 and onwards