Talk:Akali/@comment-27218982-20171128221456/@comment-24896347-20171129052820

I don't think the most balanced stealth in the game falls under the category of a basic ability granting TRUE INVISIBILITY for 8 seconds. She can sit in it for a long ass time awaiting her cooldowns, making her an incredibly powerful duelist if you stay in it, within teamfights, she takes the longest to kill simply because of this get out of jail free card.

If you're gonna give her 8 seconds of True invisibility, she needs to have something that weakens her laning phase, because as it stands, my problem with Akali is her absolutely frustrating laning phase (im talking top lane Akali). As a top laner, there is virtually no way to beat an Akali in he trade, her sustain is strong, and her damage isn't that bad either if she keeps procing those Q's. Even as Darius I struggle quite a bit vsing her, and I have noticed this with other Darius players, who logically should be beating her due to the melee Vs melee matchup usually favouring something like Darius, especially against an assassin.

Imo, she does indeed need a nerf, her laning phase at top is incredibly safe, and she outscales nearly all of them, I don't know why she isn't picked more, because for me personally, shes a powerhouse if you're even half decent with her.