Akali has always been a problematic champion — and the new season of League of Legends is far from changing that character. Long before her rework, the green ninja was terrorizing the Rift and she was always one of those characters that was particularly difficult to balance. For a moment, Riot thought he had succeeded: it was without counting on a terrible itemization recently discovered.
Why the hell bother equipping him with damage-boosting items when his kit already has so many? No, the simplest — and most effective — is still turn it into a tank.
The proof in pictures, in the hands of a little midlane prodigy well known to the French community: Vetheo.
The tanker anomaly, or Riot’s nightmare
This is frankly not the first time that a champion who should normally be “squishy” finds himself buying objects intended to transform him into a bag of life points – evidenced by Ezreal or even Talon. However, this fashion is this time as dangerous as it is frustrating. Why ? Because Akali has never performed better than with this itemization. His win rate in ranked queue, and even in competition has increased significantly — which gives rise to a very unpleasant sensation: she inflicts as much damage as the usual Akali, but she can survive twice as long.
But isn’t it the very essence of an Assassin to inflict heavy burst damage… at the cost of his survivability?
Admittedly, with this new build, Akali loses a lot in burst as well as skill damage, but this brand new build still manages to inflict great damage thanks to the unexpected synergy between the Techno-Chemist Diving Suit (Turbo Chemtank) and theDemonic Embrace (Demonic Embrace).
These aren’t things we expected to see together because they fall into categories that the League of Legends developers consider to be separate. However, they have in common that they favor champions based on their max health. With this method, the champion compensates for her apparent lack of power and is able to achieve even better results against tougher heroes.
Ever since this build became popular, Akali’s winrate has skyrocketed. When equipped like this, the ninja’s win rate increases to 52.32%. Statistics that allow him to exceed the average for the first time in several seasons. An upward trend that seems destined to continue…
Original content by MGG Spain
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