Talk:Akali/@comment-24496127-20150529222130/@comment-1330314-20150529233506

Riot stated no such thing. They did, however, acknowledge that her previous nerfs had made her excessively weak, and wanted to give her power in a way that relied on greater counterplay (her pass-through dash gives her opponents more time to react while giving her a bit more sticking power, for example).

It's true that Akali is fairly binary right now, but then again, she's not nearly as bad as she used to be. Not only is she slightly more complicated to use (the removal of the detonation on  forces her to use autoattacks, which makes a big difference), there are also a lot more options out there to deal with her (mages have an easier time sustaining themselves with the buffs to, and tanks are more common). It's likely she'll get deeper changes further down the line, but for the moment she's in an acceptable state, especially when compared to champions like and, who have much bigger issues with their own burst.