Talk:Akali/@comment-31388120-20190924045659/@comment-27802145-20190924060835

Up front hard cc on assassins is hard to deal with. It's why they've a delay or some other prerequisite tacked onto them.

Pre-nerf Akali and Qiyana ults are the exceptions to this, though they're also identifiable by their very short durations (talking about the knock back here; stun on Qiyana ult has a prerequisite of being struck by terrain).

Other than the fact that Qiyana ult wouldn't function without having up front cc, assassins shouldn't have on-demand hard cc unless it puts them in direct danger (i.e. Quinn with her E being her only self-peel). Short durations isn't an argument when assassins can still pull off their whole rotation. Akali is sort of an edge case where I think the correct thing to do is largely dependent on how strong she generally feels at the current time.