Talk:Akali/@comment-24862418-20180412021716/@comment-26808509-20180529083807

Why tho? The Smoke screen is, despite it's high duration, a pretty balanced spell for the one reason that it's stationary. A slwoing field that lasts 8 seconds and gives Akali a big amount of movementspeed would honestly be pretty broken if it moved. On the other hand it gives Akali a unique zoning tool, that creates counter potential for the opposite team (mainly AoE effects, predicitions and zoning abilites).

If the Smoke screen was able to move it would enhance Akalis ability to stick to her targets by a lot. Going invis but staying in a kimited area is the trade off she takes for the safety. If she could control the smoke to travel in the same direction as her target, she could run in and out of the smoke WHILE chasing down the enemies. The only way to balance this would be to either removoe some of its utility (like the slow and/or the bonus ms) or to set the travel speed so incredibly low that it's not worth implementing it in the first place.

Smoke Screen is fine as it is in my opinion. The things that have to change in her kit are pretty much every other spell. Her sustainin passive (she's an assassin, she shouldn't sustain in fights), her Q that carries like 80% of her burst (leaving the rest of her kit in a meh spot), her DPS E and her ult.

Akali currently doesn't have a real identity amongst the assassins.

Katarina is the teamfighting snowballer

Zed is the "pick one-kill one"

LeBlanc... well she was the deciever, now she's again the midgame 1 second kill

Fizz is the slippery Di Caprio

Talon is the roamer

Ekko is the "fighter assassin" with a hit'n'run playstyle

Rengar is the hunter

Kha'Zix is the clean up

And Akali? Yes, she is the "lock on death sentence that will chase you until one of you is dead", but that's not really a fleshed out identity. She is this kinda sustaining diver with assassination abilites and that just sucks. If you want to play an assassin, there isn't really a reason to play Akali over onve of the others, as she doesn't have a niche that she excells in. There is almost nothing that she can do better than the others. But the Smoke Screen could create such an identity, if Riot focuses her gameplay around it.