Talk:Akali/@comment-30053890-20191026231355/@comment-30053890-20191026233756

Just some thoughts to get an idea of what could be different. I really enjoy Akali but I feel like she can be done better. My idea is to bring some counterplay to her playstyle.

I wanted to make landing her Q less rewarding. Removing the slow I feel is necessary because she already has an ms increase, dashes, and her gunblade slow. Having that 50% slow is just a little more than she needs.It's so easy to land her Q. Akali shouldn't be able to heal from trade easily because of Gunblade. Increasing the cooldown will give melee champions a brief respite so they don't have to worry about Akali pressing Q twice in a row to heal completely back to full health during a fight.

Her W changes I have been talking about for awhile. Why make it invisibility? Why not make it seem like real smoke instead? If you're close enough you can see some things through it, but can you see outside of the smoke? Probably not. The price for entering Akali's safe space is loss of vision. You can fight her in it but you might fall victim to map awareness or the lackthereof. This also provides some interesting teamfighting potential. I changed the energy increase because I thought that the ability was just a little too safe. The massive movement speed buff combined with the energy restore and safety just seemed a little overloaded. We do want her to continue fights but not so freely so I moved some of the energy restore onto her E so that when she goes in, she is rewarded with the ability to fight for longer.

It's pretty clear that Riot wants to reward landing her E. I agree that it shouldn't be just used for mobility. So punish people for missing it, and reward players for being gutsy and running in. Simple as that. It's an overall nerf to the ability to help make up for her W change.

Her R... I always wondered why they didn't do this in the first place. If you want the perfect execution then you need to be able to get away. So, give people the energy to do so or let them dash faster...