Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-25798210-20141230193727/@comment-25904283-20150105203356

Akali is not energy starved as you think because she restores energy on proccing Q. She is also far from no CDR with a default 5% in mastery and another 10% in DFG. Due to her building Gunblade, her total burst using just one R charge is already 2.1 AP and some total AD scaling. Coupled with DFG, no ADC can survive without a really good peel.

The point here is Akali has an all-in and chain-kill play style. Therefore, even if she can avoid hard CC, she won't be able to avoid all retaliated damage from enemy team (as long as they use pink ward). She needs the sustain to survive that. LB style is burst then retreat immediately. She has very little window of getting hit, and she doesn't stay in the middle of the fight for long either, making sustain not necessary.