Why EVERYONE Plays: Akali | League of Legends
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- Today's episode of Why EVERYONE Plays features arguably the most 200 years rework to ever (dis)grace our hallowed rift - Akali: The Rogue Assassin
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When she disappears into that smoky donut so does all traces of balance along with her
"smoky donut" 😭
and you feel like a real shinobi !!!
you're a lillia you have AoE, just use it dude no need for precision when you hit a 1/4 of the screen
*Screw the Balance I have Smoke!*
@@albertoHammyer you sound like a salty Akali main, seriously tho just because 1 or 2 champs can deal with her shroud doesn't make the shroud balanced
Akali, one of those champions whose counterplay is "pray they don't know how to play it".
Or you know how she korks and avoid to fight her after she r cause you havd 2 seconds to run away
@@misterfacha7708 because it's so easy to avoid someone with 200+ dashes
you don't need to avoid her you can stop her in her tracks if you can predict and all
@@albertoHammyer her counter = being able to dodge and predict every engage she does... ah yes
She's pretty easy to counter when you actually know what her kit does
“akali is by far the hardest assassin in the game”
ok not like their ego is big enough already smh
Qiyana mains crying :P
I would say me ego okay but it can get big if I am mad or toxic when is not a lot :p
@justluck countless games of qiyana to even her being playable (getting one shotted as an assassin)... Sadge
@@ilyasssakat7446 Yeah, which is why they probably bristled when he said Akali was the hardest assassin XD.
@@coindroid7647 Qyiana is not that hard, her main combo is a literal automatic Point and click that you don't even need to AIM.. (EQ if you don't know, E+Q during the dash will make the skillshot automatically aim for you, it's almost impossible to dodge it)
Why EVERYONE plays X: because this champion does well on its own
Why NOONE plays X: because this champion helps the team
Its probably becuz players have this anime main character syndrome. Where they rather go alone an solo carry the game than help every one in the team cuz they'd rather win the game asap.
Its kinda sad for us solo players...
@@azertykeys9011 Human beings have had "anime main character syndrome" since the dawn of fucking mankind.
@@azertykeys9011 that or it's because soloQ require consistency and having a champion reliant on the team to do his things adds an element of inconsistency to games.
That said, I still play team reliant champions like Shen, statistically there will probably be at least one guy in your team worth backing up (hopefully not the support.)
@@HamsterPants522 Not us supports.
@@KuyruksuzSatyr Even supports have been tuned over the years to be less team reliant, though. There's a reason almost every new support has at least one ability built for catching people. It's a lot harder to mess up a kill opportunity where the support stuns someone for you than when they just cast some buffs and leave the rest to you.
Because 200 years worth of d a s h i n g
*coughs in irelia Q*
@@phoenixflamegames1 coughs in riven
@@wedwastaken2362 coughs in fiora ... Wait a second, that's the trinity of toplane waifus 🤔
Caughs in kassa
Coughs in talon
video suggestion: why is fizz still in the game
Sounds fair
@Arjun Baweja it's just that he also has an ability which has nearly 0 counterplay to it. There will always be counterplay but his playfull Trickster in combination with his ult is just mheee/unfair (adc main)
Just like Vars said in the video, 2nd most hated mechanic, invisibility, and numbero uno is untargetability. It's honestly stupid, I agree, but fizz isn't really broken, he just has a mechanic that requires experience to deal with.
@Arjun Baweja everyone has but he is even worse than akali
@@asukakang821 I believe his damage needs a nerf but his abilities should stay the same. He should have to play with some semblance of strategy and multiple abilities to get the kill.
You forgot to mention K/DA. Don't underestimate how much those music videos and skins inspired people to play her.
He only talk about gameplay. Saying "Yasuo/Yone are popular cuz they are edgy" is not a good content.
@@carnivorze1052 Of course that wouldn't be good content on its own, and gameplay does take precedence over anything else, but my point is that character design, thematics, skins and marketing do contribute to a champion's popularity, or lack of. It wouldn't hurt for Vars to talk about these aspects.
@@carnivorze1052 But why a lot of people play certain champions also contributed by their marketing. Gameplay alone does not influence a champion's popularity.
@@carnivorze1052 Sadly, a lot of people go "Because edgy samurai. There, saved you 16 minutes". :(
@@VarsVerum And that's why your explanations are the best on TH-cam. You take the characteristics of a champion in his gameplay to find implied explanations of why people like one champion over another.
akalis w is the fairest and most balanced ability ever made
said no one ever
Akali W, Yasuo W, Samira W and Gwen W, the Four Horsemen of Balance
@@michaandrzejsigismundfreih7900 gwen w isnt that good while yes it make untargtabel by evrything outside most melle character dont care
@@godofpotatos96 It mostly feels like this because the rest of Gwens kit is underwhelming. Her W on its own is one of the strongest base abilities.
@@michaandrzejsigismundfreih7900 i mean putting in the same boat with akalis w that has like no counter play yasuo wthat becomes bigger the more points and it protecs all his team and samiras w being that but weaker doesnt seem logical
@@godofpotatos96 her w does have counter play though massive aoe abilites anivia ult, garen spin, shyv dragon breath, fiddle ult, tf ult, morg, viegar wall,ect can all push akali out of the stealth or they are gonna take alot of damage. also treat is like illoi ult when it goes down your team should try and move away from it(not always practicle or matter if you are squish adc) but if you move away from it and push for a fighter after it has a 20 cd that she cant use it. And you can use orcles lens to see where she is at for skill shots.
So there are some methods of dealing with her but your team has to adapt to be able to ajdust and focus on counter her (which can be a problem with pugs).
Old Akali will always have a special place in my heart since she’s the champ I got my first pentakill on
Same
Mine was morde the dragon one
Mid morde was so fun
Mine was Zilean. Double bomb bitches!!!!
Mine is katarina
@@kfkf6569 same lol, played like 15 games with her (lifetime) and got a Penta on the 7th
Is anyone gonna talk about that baffling urgot teleport at 1:45 ?
Yeah I was about to say, that is one stressed out Urgot LOL
He was trying replicate old urgot ult
Was looking for this comment
ya i was bout say the same thing wtf
BRO I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THAT LMFAOOOOOO
I'd be very interested in a "Why Everyone Plays: Twisted Fate"
He doesn't seem to have the same features and mechanics and flashy combos and 1v5 potential of others in the series, so I'd love to see your take on why he's so popular.
Tf has insane map pressure, his ult is an insane tool and point and click stun (yellow card) is free setup. High Elo players drool over that kind of stuff.
Auto attack stun
Tf is such a well made champ tbh
Even after all these years hes still viable i mean just look at his passive lol
Short answer: High elo and proplay is macro over micro.
answer is simple: because dopa
"they play champions because they wanna win"
*hellbrute noises, the one who shall not be named, the one who was created in Belle Delphine's image, emerges from the the darket pits of hell*
Akali was the second champ I picked up in League. I played about 15-20 levels on JInx, (enough to understand basic game loop for someone with no prior LoL/Moba knowledge), then picked up Akali because she seemed fun. I had no idea that she would be such a difficult player, and I basically learned the game with my first ~100k mastery on her. Certainly was a difficult task, especially because it led to a lot of negative KDAs and things of the like. But now, I have a 60% winrate on her in midlane (300 games.)
Still unranked and likely bronze tho.
I MISS TANK AKALI i thought i was the only one who remembers
I still play tank Akali just to troll my friends ahahah
I don't.
sunfire rush 😭😭 it was so fun to curb stomp yasuo with e max
Tankakali still works rn
I play Ahri so I never had an issue landing against Akali but the last 3 weeks I tried to play Akalia and tbh she's so fun to play and she has a lot of damage which why I started to learn her.
Yes, she has the most combos in the Game. Have fun learning her, it pays off.
I actually liked her old kit, one of the rare hybrid champs and that Shadow dash ability was really fun to use.
I started playing akali when she was just sitting around like 44% wr or so because I got blood moon akali and then really liked her
This is word for word what happened to me
Skin = better champ?
Trying champions because you got a nice skin for them is tight.
Yeah blood moon akali is one of the best skins for her imo
@@sebcross2425 the splash art is god tier
OLD AKALI WAS MY FAVE CHAMP SAME AS ORIANNA, OLD AKALI WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PALCE IN ME HEART
OK MICHAEL DOMINGUEZ
I miss old Akali...I liked the time she were played as Tank Top xD
But yeah old Akali was easy to play. Spam buttons in most cases
@gorilla sauce no
I honestly liked the old Akali
Not because the design or playstyle was better, but because it was so satisfying getting fed and throwing a Q at an ADC and then one-shotting them with Ult + Gunblade + Lich Bane + Q proc.
I started playing her about 3 months ago and right now she's the only reason why I play league of legends. She is so fun to play and so satisfying. Ironically, I prefer to play her when she's nerfed to the ground. She's currently considered one of the worst champion in the mid/top lane (patch 11.17) and being able to perform on her despite that makes it even more satisfying. She's also never picked or banned so I can always play her.
Great video keep up the good work.
She has a lot of pick and ban rate what do you mean and its fun because its overpowered.
@@gukagobronidze6102 salty?
She not high skill. He E is one of the best abilities in the game. If you hit it, you can take it and hit W. If you dont hit it, you are just safe.
Her all in is too safe.
@gorilla sauce yeah. the combo is easy if you have avg mech. you take the E. then it passive, R ,passive, Q, passive, R. that not counting W and also lichbane with 40% ap ratio every 1.5 sec. everyone forget her W give movement speed and her passive. so you cant run away. she can. so it stats check like garen or mundo. do you have the stats to beat her? if you do she run away. if you dont, you die.
I miss old times when Zed was the most op assassin in the game.
If you're playing Veigar he might as well be
@@minimoYT Well Zed Katarina and Fizz just hard counter Veigar because his kit is a bit one dimensional and they happen to have the perfect tools to counter it, but most champions are either less one dimensional than Veigar or they are better because their numbers allow them to not suck (like garen, who has unreasonable base values so that his one dimensional gameplay is still strong).
Do you plan on doing a "Why EVERYONE Plays: Katarina"?
It’s too obvious why xD
Just get one kill in teamfight and you get insta penta. Unless the champs you’re facing is so fcking tanky and have a shitton of CC
she's average on pickrate tho and mainly otps
"Giant smokey donut" I don't think I can call it anything else from now on, well done sir
As someone who mains akali, you're pretty accurate on why I play her
"Akali is the hardest assassin in the game", nice meme, buddy.
I dont main her but, which assasin require more skill then?
Maybe Qiyana.
dont say katarina lol
I’m so happy your channel has been doing so well! :)
Thanks Nel! It's a lot of work but I'm doing my best :D
Akali is one of the few assassins really enjoy playing. She just feels so fluent and her combos are super satisfying. Personally I've never had a problem with laning against her but I can understand why its annoying. I am glad you pointed out that she isnt the easiest champ like so many people claim X_X
Cheating should be also satysfying for you. Casue she is like legal cheat.
@@mateuszkucharski1350 cope
@@mateuszkucharski1350 thats every champ one is good with
I'd say she's one of the best with outplay ability if u got skill
There was a time when I mained old Akali and was pretty good at using her. I haven't played League since late 2015 so it's one of the things I miss the most in the game.
if akali went from why no one plays to why everyone plays maybe there should be a 3rd category called what happened to (champion) it just sounds a little more accurate
Old akali was insane. her Mobility through her Ult in combination with a ward was out of this world. it was a very simple high dmg assassin, Point and click basically everything. once you bought her gun blade she was unstopebil. Q > R > E > R and most mid lane champions were dead, and from that point you could snow ball so hard that the game was over. if you know how to play old akali she was one of the most fun champions in all of lol.
When talking about old akali you shouldve showed clips of old akali..
I used to feel bad for her nerfs....but then i play against her in games and im like.....nvm u can rot
Does akali look like shes walking sideways like a crab....?
"Akali is likely top 10 hardest champions to master"
People who plays 2d fighters for rank and Osu players.
"Come again?"
Akali is the only champion in the game that you feel sorry for getting so many nerfs
*But then you play against her*
And Aurelion Sol, Taliyah, Azir ? There are really bad and Riot still nerf them.
People feel bad for Akali being nerfed?
Must be Akali mains.
@@carnivorze1052 remenber when riot literally said they didnt know how to balance azir and kalista and just gave up on then? yeah, balance.
@@TaconIStenen dude I never played akali, but I have friends that play her and frequently 1v1 them, yet I'm still sad for the nerfs because she doesn't befome weaker per say, just more limited in the ways seh can act, she's not weaker she's more predictable wich make 1v1 really easy
@@albertoHammyer ok and? League isn’t a 1v1 game, it’s a teamgame.
Alternate title: Why EVERYONE hates Akali
Cause it's disgustingly bad champion design.
@@mateuszkucharski1350 Basado y rojopastillado.
So no one gonna talk about that urgot 1:50
Sad. Way better champion design.
One of the most infuriating things about her was how she’d use Q and passive and literally never run out of energy while also having high burst with her e and ult, it felt like she had no weaknesses. Also who remembers off tank / ad top lane Akali? Very fun champ to play, so infuriating to fight.
Edit: autocorrect is bish
They removed the energy restore of a passive and I agree, it was making her DPS kinda ridiculous.
Well actually Akali is the most balanced champion in the game that requires so much skill to even have a chance in accessing her full kit. 0/10 Video disgusting unsubscribing how dare you! She is my queen!
Idk if this is irony
@@monke3659 No! Its not irony and akali is balanced not to mention she requires very much skill in order to acces to full of her kit how dare you make a reply about my quenn
Our queen*
@@monke3659 it is
Im one trick akali and I can visualize all the adc mains tilting the shit out of this game when they get solokilled
I’m glad to see a lot of positivity in this seeing as akali is very skill expressive and fun to play. Obviously the champ is annoying and frustrating to deal with but that is a very common issue with playmaking champs in general. Great video keep up the great content
Skill FLOOR is more important than skill ceiling. I think people talk about champion difficulty a lot without really taking that into account. Riven has a very high skill FLOOR, to get the basics of playing at a level equivalent to your average elo on other champions takes a lot of time. Lots of popular champions have one thing in common, it’s not that hard to play them passably. Yone and Akali fit this pretty well. They have a fairly average skill floor but an uncapped skill ceiling. The thing that makes a champion insanely popular champs is that they’re EASY To pick up but HARD TO MASTER.
Can you possibly do Why everyone plays: Ahri next?
her thematic, her easy playstyle but challenging mechanics, her character and her versatility in mid. She can be a mage while being an assassin
Which is funny because she sells skins, but play rate is super middle of the board and she's never super strong nor fairly weak.
@@amandaslough125 Everything you coukd ever ask for in a champion
Oddly enough it's rare to see Ahri players. She's one of those champs who don't do exceedingly well unless they really know what they're doing.
The kda songs probably just hyped her up more-
She's fucking broken, end of the video.
No seriously, I played one match top against an M7 Darius with me not being either a top laner nor having ever played Akali and I went 7-0 before they surrendered
As a former akali main myself. Akali can be very frustrating to play against and it's not usually frustrating to play her, but because people doesn't know how to punish little mistakes and use them on your benefit. In early poke her hard af if you're ranged. If you're melee win lane in rotations. If she doesn't get rolling with rotations she can get very useless in the mid game. Because las rework makes her a late beast. Don't let her farm or get experience, if your damage is higher early on keep farming and keeping her out of xp range. Just a couple tips.
Oh wow so there is actually someone in this world that knows that Akali is so fvcking difficult to learn and master despite not maining her, i am surprised
Personally as someone that mained all akali - i absolutely hate new akali and dont find her enjoyable to play at all - personally I was a big fan of the hybrid identity and didnt find the kit clunky at all - the main problem she had was ppl below diamond not knowing that pink wards exist and just every champion the same way - if you just sit in the shroud of course you gonna lose. If you run out of the shroud (which has a 20 second cooldown) what is akali gonna do?
I don’t play akali lol she’s too complicated for me to play even tho I main qiyana, Zoe, Gwen, ahri, Evelynn and Annie lol only like 1 of those is complicated but back to what I was saying I just don’t like akali
Akali is probably the hardest assassin but that's not saying much. Akali is not even close to one of the hardest to play.
I don't really play assassins, but Akali is my favourite assassin to play. She's really fun and satisfying.
Old akali was mommy
But new akali is yummy...
And other things thirsty bois say that make no sense.
i don't think Akali is harder than Qiyana, that's just my opinion (of a main Qiyana who plays Akali lol)
You could really rename this series to why everyone hates ____ . All of these champs are frustrating for everyone besides the person playing them
The video can simply be summarized at "Akali is overload". It's sad to see that the most played champions are the ones who can do it all without defined counterplay.
Hummm its not like she is usless in team fights when super fed and somone like neeko can fuck her or tath any other flashy assasin can dodge her whole kit
she's not overloaded
It's because people like easy games. They like to feel they are better than others without any effort. This champion is unfair to play against, and doesn't matter how many nerfs she will get - he is unfair based on her skillset, which means only rework can change it. But people doesn't care about it. People don't like being fair. when game offers legal cheating - then they use the possibility.
Get. Better.
How bout you take a look at most banned champs during ranked? Well if you dont want to play against her it's pretty fine since 9/10 games you will play has the chance of Akali banned. Besides, if she doesn't pop of during early she's extremely useless in late game. She still needs kills to pop off if she doesn't then she's like any other ADC that simply dies in the middle of the fight
Bc she's fun
Should we make "Why Everyone Plays: Pyke"? It would be interesting to see.
death by a thousand cuts more like death by 2 q's
Vars and Rav upload on the same day, yay!
I'm excited to see thisss
does anyone else feel like she's got the health of some brawlers lolol
Akali that gurl, kali go nerf riot don't stop riot go to work they always nerf me wth
I hate Akali. I can never keep track of her.
I only main her cuz i have the kda skin
Akali is like Irelia in terms of difficulty I think. They feel useless at first but the payoff.
Akali is by far the harfest assasin in the game
Rito:difficulty 2 of 3
Rito is brainded
Can I just say, that Shen also doesn't feel like a ninja, but w/e lol
neither does kennen.
With her buffs a few patches ago the title is accurate but before that I can remember that her playrate was pretty low
Bro I love just cause of the Forest kingdom theme you got in the background
Instant like
It’s funny cause I’m playing Neir:Autómata rn and Im so exited for the replicant remake
I played Akali on top a couple times and I pretty much just always feed my ass off and then ask myself: "how is she broken? How come when they play Akali she takes my health bar and throws it into the trash but when I play akali, I barely do more damage than a super minion?" Guess I was on auto-pilot that day.
Great video, really makes me feel like I'm Akali. Also, shoutouts to the Urgot who teleported to tower at 1:47
My brain get shut down when I try to play Akali. She's just too hard for me. So yeah, I respect Akali mains, and also Aphelios. Those champs are hard af.
@@tripleD2301 I play apholos too and I still can’t spell his name correctly without looking it up. Anyways, I feel that goth boy is way easier than akali. So, I think you can play him too ^^
@@Kilesfactor I think Aphelios is not hard as his combo is easier than Akali, Riven, Zed. But his new UI and tons of gun is what make him complicated and hard af ._.
@@tripleD2301 well, as a person who plays TF2, UI isn't really much to get used to (I mod my ui alot). He only has 5 guns. That's 2 more than Jinx, so pretty easy if you ask me~
8:17 Urf Akali is a nightmare for a reason
Could we get a why no one plays for Draven?I think it would be an interesting topic to explore the death of early game adc's like draven.
Laughs in Poppy
i played akali mainly for her thematic ngl
i mained her from s3 and i loved her thematics, even if it changed from female ninja who kept all balance to flashy skill expressive female rebel ninja
Ngl I prefer old akalis voice to the new. New Akali tried to hard to stound stealthy but I feel like old akalis voice naturally stealthy without much effort.
*me, being patient with the 2nd dash on her ult*
Hold, HOLD, HOOOOOLD, GO!
200 years champ
akali has counter plays actually a lot on top mostly scaling champions like nasus kayle cho gath and urgot and if she is mid pray that your jungler has 2 braincells and ganks you a lot cuz then she will be useless if she has to focus on her laner and another target she cant see
The hardest assassin to learn is ivern, fight me
Old Akali I miss you, throw Q, trigger Q mark with E... I thought they ruined her when they changed her E to not trigger her Q anymore
But this shit is straight up no
because she cool
Old Stinger Akali was my waifu.
The new one idk.. don't like her playstyle and design.
still dont get why if im using darius or mordekaiser i can:
A. use dar Q to stand in the middle and hit the entire donut
B. just use morde Q or W on the donut
Love your videos man, you did say Zed is single target and not good in teamfights for some reason though? One of Zed's major strengths is that he has pseudo-control mage zone control later into a game, its a bad idea to underestimate a good Zed's potential for aoe dmg. Just a little constructive criticism, keep it up!
It's honestly very frustrating to play against akali, just because i had times where i was a full item ahead of her as neeko and because i missed one E she completely destroyed me and there was nothing i could do. That feels amazing for the akali player, she has a lot she can do just with her base stats, but its so annoying that you can't make anything wrong against an akali or else you are gone
She's so fun to play, but i never take her to rank because I'm not that good with her
I really wanna learn how to play Akali cause she has a really fun kit imo :)
Words can't describe how much I miss old Akali. Rip that 650k mastery points T-T.
I feel like old Akali is more fun than new Akali
"Akali is harder than Qiyana" might be the best joke ive heard this year
Video suggestion:Why everyone plays Thresh?
Beacuse why not?EVERYONE LOVES THRESH
akali was my main before rework and i liked to play her after rework too but they nerfed her so much and i just stop playing her
I love her previous design but simply *like* her current design.
problem is I LIKE THE OLD ONE WAAAAY MORE AND NOW I FEEL SAD ABOUT HER REWORKED DESIGN
that's it, this is my opinion on akali
Akali be like:
> Normal Laning 0/0
> Gets a double kill on bot
> Stomps mid laner
> 1v5 because i'm fed now
> triple kill
> Escapes cuz W
> Team gets baron and finish the game
> MVP
> "I can't understand why she recieves so many nerfs!"
Because she’s broken and the only counterplay against her is herself playing bad
No need to watch the video
I'm an M7 Akali and M7 Qiyana main. Qiyana's difficulty level is on another tier. Akali is not the hardest assassin in the game. Pls don't make claims like this..
its not entirely true that she has so much learn curve i picked akaly and katarina FIRST time im level 55 and i 1v9 the game without proper knoledge WHY am i allowed to do so? thats just unbalanced, i just took clense to fuck over CC and man thats just unfair
I really dislike akali.
I can't click on her ever.
3 out of 4 abilities make it so I can't click on her and my hands aren't the best.
So often when I play like annie for example. I feel like I just lose to her because the game has no way of selecting her without clicking on her character.
Making it so I can just Q her on the scoreboard would fix this honestly.
6:30 that moment as an new akali player was amazing. had me hyped with the perfect execute ulti.