Talk:Akali/@comment-26462860-20150603223041/@comment-3546228-20150605160802

Yes. Her base damages are laughable, it's her scaling that's strong. That's why an Akali with no items can't kill anything, while an Akali with items can oneshot anyone.

What's dumb is that while giving her "counterplay" Riot gimped her laning phase even more. She already had the weakest levels 1 to 6 out of all the assassins, besides Poppy. It's disgusting.

Even though Akali's one of my favourite champions, I would strongly advice against picking her now. You have to be in melee range of your target for ages until you kill them. She's got no way of surviving in this meta in which people pick teams with 2 or 3 beefy guys.