Talk:Akali/@comment-33954966-20181128015019/@comment-24971427-20181128144734

The problem is that she's too much of a bully early game and has free sustain.

She can sit in her shroud and farm for 8 seconds early game, poke with Q and heal for everything without suffering any meaningful harass.

Her kit is also packed with a lot free bonus damage to win those trades you try to do.

This is her early game power in Bronze ranks, but when she starts appearing in higher rank games, people know how to find her in that tiny donut ring of hers and poke her down, as well as denying her sustain.

Later around mid game, her tankiness and sustain start to disappear and her poke stops hurting as much too.

She needs to snowball early game or she becomes trash.

Same goes for every assassin, but more so for Akali cause she just does not have that much to bring to the table when teamfights begin.

She has to run and wait for energy to restore and trigger her passive while she waits for her cooldowns, with the only spammable damage ability being Q.

Other assassins have more consistent damage than her or offer some utility to the team.

She has nothing.

Her Q is short ranged and without her shroud, she can't do shit. Her Q's slow only lasts for 0.5 seconds too.

Single-target execution with her ult, is pretty much the only thing she can do. Without that, adcs won't even come near her, and tanks, mages and other assassins are just gonna lock her down, or blow her up.