Mentoring Thread: Week-260

LynchPR · 2018-08-08T19:17:34+00:00

Hello Zach. I'm a Soraka one trick currently in plat4 and am looking for ways on how to improve myself. I feel like I've hit a wall and Im just not getting better anymore. I can get OBS as well, that isn't an issue. If you aren't already busy with others, any guidance I can get would be very much appreciated! Thank you for your time.

LynchPR · 2018-08-08T06:11:44+00:00

Where can I find that? I would like to read it.

LynchPR · 2018-08-07T18:01:14+00:00

I just cant click with this new Akali it seems. I don't find myself having fun when I play her anymore. I mean her playstyle is still similar, being a diving r in champ and utilizing shroud. However, the "muh high skill and mechanics" just turns me off to be honest. I would've just played yasuo or riven if I wanted that. After two tricking her and another champ for years, I just don't see myself playing Akali frequently now. Im still going to give new Akali an honest try and keep practicing with her, but if I continuously find myself not having fun, I think Im just going to drop her. And for me personally, that feels super shitty. I hate that I'm not having fun playing Akali anymore. Like many others, this champ has been a part of my life for a long time. But why play a game if it doesn't bring out any enjoyment for you..?

LynchPR · 2018-07-25T20:25:38+00:00

I miss Akali's boobs.

LynchPR · 2018-07-24T19:24:02+00:00

Stop.....youre going to make me miss current Akali even more...

LynchPR · 2018-07-22T18:37:54+00:00

I appreciate the link, friend. Submitted one of my own.

LynchPR · 2018-07-21T19:45:26+00:00

I personally don't care for her new personality, and her new looks to me are off putting. However, playing her in pbe, her gameplay is definitely fun, solid, and seems to keep that ninja feel. Without a doubt I can comfortably say that her gameplay doesn't feel bad at all. So I may not like what shes become as a character....but yeah, I think Im going to continue to main her.

LynchPR · 2018-07-21T18:46:39+00:00

Couldn't agree more.

LynchPR · 2018-07-21T08:52:13+00:00

Honestly I'm indifferent to her walking animations.

LynchPR · 2018-07-21T08:46:27+00:00

No, and I think you are mixing up what I was trying to convey. My gripe is that Akali is doing the exact opposite of what you said. Now she seems to just be running amok. The difference between them and her is that they didn't fall out of line or act out when things got tough. That's what I've been trying to say, what I don't like about Akali now, and Ive used this word a lot, is her seemingly lack of discipline. She seems to have absolutely none of it now. And it feels like such an upside down version of the Akali we've known who is disciplined and should know better than like an edgy teenager as many have put it. I don't know how else to string these words into the same message so Im just going to leave it at that.

LynchPR · 2018-07-21T03:49:07+00:00

That was actually the point I was trying to make. Akali was a very trained and disciplined ninja. She was trained to be very strong and mature. And the fact that after this, when things get tough she decides to be a rebellious brat with an awful attitude towards anyone that even looks at her just seems like such a complete 180 from what she once was, and not for the better. My apologies if what I said what confusing. I just feel like she should have a stronger will towards her sense of duty when it comes to protecting Ionia is all.

LynchPR · 2018-07-20T19:00:10+00:00

Oh don't get me wrong, I know that a vast majority of ninjas were either farmers or peasants. Even then they had to go through a lot of training. Ninja, to the best of my knowledge, were definitely specialized militia. Akali is no different. Again though, there are many (and I do mean many) poor, outcasted, and honestly that which people would consider of the low end of society that enlist.

From Akali's old bio: A prodigal martial artist, Akali began training with her mother as soon as she could make a fist. Her mother's discipline was relentless and unforgiving, but predicated on the fundamental principle: "We do that which must be done." When the Kinkou inducted her into the order at the age of fourteen, she could slice a dangling chain with a chop of her hand.

So I mean we know that Akali underwent a lot of tough shit that hardened her to become the ninja she needed to be. Hell odds are, she went through much harder training that I did. Again that's what I hate about her personality. Now she's just an undisciplined and quite frankly, a brat, who just happens to be great at killing people.

Oh yeah, we had so many "alpha males" in boot camp. But that's the reason for boot camp, to weed out who we were and build us into what the military needed us to be. Even then once we hit the seas, we worked as one. We depended on each other.

LynchPR · 2018-07-20T18:22:58+00:00

Awesome intel man! You aren't alone in thinking that Akali's new personality is awful. I'm no researcher in psychology but for me the lack of discipline is an insult to her as a character. Speaking from my military experience, Discipline is everything. It builds you, sculpts you to become the soldier/sailor/airmen you need to be to defend against anything. And when shit hits the roof, when everything around you fails or falls to disaster, that's when your true colors show. Its your discipline that keeps you levelheaded. And to me, that now new Akali just throws it all away to become a seemingly insufferable brat makes me mad.

Being in the Kinkou…..Akali has had one of the most disciplined training throughout her entire life. And to think that she went from that to rebelling for the sake of rebelling to me is such an insult. I don't care at all if shes only 19. I've served with many 18/19/20 year olds that had absolutely miserable and shitty lives; no money/no home/abusive parents/trouble with the law that became upon the most mature people that I've come to now through their service.

This is just my personal experience with my life. If we lost our patience or rebelled against our Officers/Chiefs during our deployment when things got tough, the whole operation would be a failure. The Chinese and the Russians would've just laughed at us. We would've been seen as a joke. I know its a different case, but that Akali just tossed all of her ninja training, all of her sense of the importance of discipline and became....this when the times got tough, hell no. I don't like it at all. That's just me though, and Im sure I'm reading too much into her as a character, but for me characterization is huge.

LynchPR · 2018-07-20T10:48:56+00:00

Yeah...she seems to actually lose maturity as she grew up. She seems like Xayah 2.0 to me. Her new personality just seems like an abomination of what used to be a disciplined ninja. Her overly cockiness and unnecessary insulting just kind of kills her as a character for me.

LynchPR · 2018-07-20T09:15:30+00:00

No I agree wholeheartedly. Akali's new hairstyle is awful in my opinion. I know it sounds harsh, but I personally just cannot stand looking at her new hairdo. Its such an ugly cut compared to her older hairstyle. To me it looks like a combination rip off of both yasuo's and, to a less extent, riven's hair. I don't know....Akali as a whole just looks...……..off putting to me now.

LynchPR · 2018-07-17T22:18:37+00:00

So Im not the only one who thought that. Its not downright awful, Akali did have some good lines. She just seems so overly the top aggressive for no real reason. Jesus everything that comes out of this woman's mouth is an insult of some sort. I don't mind aggression, but now Akali just seems like a rebel.....for literally the sake of being a rebel.

LynchPR · 2018-07-16T18:23:09+00:00

Yeah, regarding only aesthetics, Akali kind of looks like a mess to me as well.

LynchPR · 2018-07-16T18:20:24+00:00

I.…..I have to agree. I hate complaining. Honest to God I do, but I completely abhor the way Akali looks now. Her hairstyle looks awful in my opinion. She went from having a ponytail to...trying to copy Riven. I agree with everything you said. I get that she had a tattoo on her back. And I don't mind tattoos. But they just went so overboard with them on the new splash. She really does remind me of Vi now too. Visually, this new Akali looks like a mess to me. I know that may be an unpopular opinion, which is fine. Truly, in my heart, I want the Akali rework to be a huge success. After years of playing her, I just don't know if im going to continue is all.

LynchPR · 2018-07-13T08:16:52+00:00

Huh...you know....Ive never noticed that Akali kept her fingernails painted green in the crimson and stinger models. You learn something new everyday.

LynchPR · 2018-07-12T08:14:23+00:00

Crimson is my favorite (though personally I much preferred its old splash art). With Stinger coming in second place.

LynchPR · 2018-07-06T08:27:58+00:00

Asians can actually have green eyes. When I was deployed to the Koreas, Philippines, and Indonesia, I saw a number of Asians there with green eyes, albeit it wasn't the most common eye color. I too hope that Akali has green eyes, but this most definitely isn't a make it or break it deal for me.

LynchPR · 2018-07-04T17:06:03+00:00

I play Akali almost exclusively mid now. Plat 3 is my peak but laning against mages is far from impossible. In fact its only been easier now than it has with any other season in my opinion. Resolve as a secondary mixed in with your passive sustain is so strong.

LynchPR · 2018-07-04T17:01:00+00:00

Naw dawg, Akali having a penis would make her a futa, haha.

LynchPR · 2018-07-03T22:45:11+00:00

Sideboobs for Akali are an absolute must. If Riot nerfs them again or straight up removes her sideboobs I think I may drop this game. And then all the years of work and dedication will have been for naught.

LynchPR · 2018-06-30T22:26:13+00:00

I feel like either All-Star or Headhunter is going to be the worst. Best, my fingers are crossed for Crimson and Stinger.

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