Talk:Akali/@comment-5143907-20150213025644/@comment-5663427-20150213182720

Now it's a lot harder to harass properly, since on midlane Akali has a huge chance of getting outranged or facing another assassin (and burst is one of ways to counter Akali so yea) she'll lose, so therefore on top lane she could abuse Q-E against all the melee champs to harass them while being 200 range away from their AAs (nothing spectacular but something), and quick Q-E could also easily win a trade, instantly dealing massive damage to an enemy factoring into spell vamp and energy regain from Q proc.

Now it's completely gone, but that doesn't mean that Akali is bad right now. She just needs to rely a lot more on her Shroud even when being agressive, to properly execute Q-AA (or potentially Q- wait for cooldown -AA-Q-AA), it's not bad, it forces Akali to put herself into risk while rewarding when done properly, but that kinda leaves her E doing nothing but some sight damage, and being kinda useless (until rank 5 where it has 3 second cooldown, even less with cdr).