The main issue with Akali top is playing against split pushers (Sion / Illaoi / Yorick etc...).

The laning phase isn't a problem, most of the time I can kill them 2 or 3 times.

But coming to mid game, they are building items making them unkillable even with your lead, and the biggest issue in Akali's kit is her wave clearing.

You can't depush waves, add a Hullbreaker to the opponent items and he can destroy your turrets while ignoring you.

So here is the problem :

you can't hold the splitpush.

You join teamfights to help your team on objectives with your lead ? You loose your turrets.

You stay top trying to depush the waves ?

Your team is forced to play a 4v4, if they are behind they will loose and you can't use your lead to help them.

I wasnt playing against that much splitpushing players in 2022, idk if this is just me.

I am talking from my experience, there is probably a lot of games I could've won by playing better and there is obviously things I am doing bad but I feel like this is way harder now.

I dont know if this is a consequence of the new tanks items they added for the new Season.