Talk:Akali/@comment-36067310-20190506125003/@comment-26808509-20190506190043

Then let's not take winrate argument, but rather the role-in-the-game argument. Cuz... what is her role? What is her nieche? Every assassin has one thing that they excell in, that makes them the best pick in a certain situation over other assassins.

Katarina is the teamfight assassin, she is good if your team has a decent engage, the enemy is full of squishies and she is able to clean up fights. Zed is the lock-on death sentence, he is one of the best chioces to take out one target, making him good against hyper carries. Talon is the roaming assassin, he brings the lead from his own lane to other lanes, making him a great pick if your own team has bad lane matchups or late game comps. LeBlanc is an early to midgame monster, she is the best choice if you need to close the game early as possible. Kha'Zix is the isolated-assassin, he is the best choice if the enemies have a splitpusher, because he can kill almost anyone if they are alone. Rengar is the Veigar amongst assassins, having a brutal late game scaling damage wise.

And what is Akali? She used to be the best 1v1 assassin, because she had sustain and her shroud. Heal is gone and shroud get's continuously nerfed. Her 1v1'ing is still somewhat good, but the problem is that she doesn't win games with that. Her 1v1 strength isn't as early strong as LeBlanc, means she can't close games while she is relevant. And she can't use her 1v1 strength in splitpush either, because her pushing is quite bad and there are a lot of champions who can easily answer her splitpush. And in teamfights? Almost useless. The only thing she can do in theamfights is somewhat cleaning up with her ult, but in that case it would have been simply better to pick Kata instead.

She excells in nothing. She is just a slow assassin, who has a decent 1v1 potential, but no tools to actually use that in the later stages of the game.