Talk:Akali/@comment-4530717-20140508160055/@comment-15244341-20140601200847

The slow in Rylais is weaker, gives less damage overall (since Gunblade's active does actually deal somewhat okay scaling magic damage), doesn't give lifesteal, gives less Spellvamp and the components it builds from are overall worse for Akali. WotA is also not that great of an item unless at least another champion can benefit from it (and not in the "oh it's nice to have but not really awesome" kind of benefit).

Also notice that you are mentioning two items. Gunblade, while expensive as heck, is an item loaded with all the stuff Akali would ever want. This means that the moment you get Gunblade you are free from buying any artificial CC or any sort of sustain and your next item can be a straight up damage item (such as Deathcap) or a survivability item (Zhonya's).

Plus she is one of the like... three champion you can build it on and actually get good results.