Talk:Akali/@comment-10977589-20150421174529/@comment-26372651-20150505181925

If you look at her winrate right now it is hovering around a 48%, but she has a relatively low pickrate, comparing her to yasuo (who is picked 10 times as often but has virtually the same winrate) or Kat (who is picked 5 times as much and has a 53 percent winrate) This means all the bad players probably are not picking her.

She currently has a hard time functioning as an assassin because, as mentioned in this post single target assassination is done better by other champs, 1v5ing is done better by kat, and as for middleground, that is where talon and leblanc can do some work. She has a bad early game, her powerspike is level 6, and it is just underwhelming compared to Diana's "dash and kill the squishy" level 6 and her late game dps is outdone by almost every champ, from leblanc, to most ap mages. Add this to the fact her W is essentially worthless in competitive, and worthless mid to late depending on if you are in >silver her kit is so underwhelming

Long story short her nerf a few months ago brought her from a champ with a good early game and a great mid and late, to a champ that was bad early and "meh" through the remainder. Her E applying procs doesn't fix her underlying problem that: 1. her dps is drastically lowered and is now reliant on attack speed to proc consistently, on an Ap assassin, which is terrible to buy, leaving you with a hard time getting off proc damage 2. All of her dueling power mid and early is dependent on applying and triggering multiple procs with aas, but since since you have no attack speed most ap champs can get a full rotation off on you, or cc you before you get the proc off even. 3. That you can not change an assassins underlying problems with dps by adding in mechanics that give more damage or more mobility when the problem with the damage is consistency.