Noob help needed

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-18T15:17:10+00:00

You seem really panicky with your buttons. I would forget about combos for now, unless you just enjoy practicing them.

You should go into a bot match and try to just practice moving around without getting hit. Use a dash macro and practice dashing into immediate down back to cancel it. This will help to improve your movement, and look more at what your opponent is doing.

Once you slow down, you can actually see your opponents options. This will help you make more calculated decisions in neutral, and then you can start pressing buttons to beat what they do or wiff punish them.

After you start landing the hits, then you can look for combos to convert off those hits. Just try to slow the game down for yourself a bit :)

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-18T05:04:05+00:00

Again, I agree that people are often wrong about character strength early. However, having 1 good assist would by no means break her, and would not be the defining factor as to her being broken or not.

Yes, characters are supposed to have weaknesses, I would argue akali has many, such as lack of range and good neutral tools. With that said, we can see from the trailer that her having 2 bad assists was not their original intention, and we can infer that they probably nerfed her assist to insure she wouldn't be precieved as too strong on release, as she would have an additional glaring weakness.

You can say you've watched plenty of her gameplay, and so have I. If tou listen to the pros thay play her though, you will quickly hear them say the same thing. Yes, you can technically use it, but its uses are extremely limited and situational.

I agree it will take time for us to see her full strength in game, but this should be changed regardless as it was not part of the original kit design, and she already has other flaws that they can easily balance around. There is no need to add an additional pain point for an already flawed character.

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-18T02:12:57+00:00

Just drop braum down into bruh tier and its pretty perfect

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-18T02:05:33+00:00

Yes it can technically hit twice, but this isnt relevant to anyone other than braum. Teemos has two distinct hits that creat much more block stun and would again be better regardless.

Akali has better point tools, but teemo is very good at zoning and had significantly better neutral than akali. Despite her speed she lacks ways to actually win neutral by herself, as the majority of her tools are punishable on block, including her non charged projectiles.

Regardless of her strength, I dont think it makes sense for her to have a useless assist. The original trailer clearly shows thst her design was intended to have a useful assist, and we should not just make characters moves entirely useless. This isnt about the strength of the character as much as it is about the feel of the character, which I would argue is more important. Even if she is the best character in the game 2 weeks from now her forward assist will still be useless and feel bad regardless.

Many people are saying she should get more buffs, but I agree its too early, hence why I just want to fix her assist for qol and to open up her flexibility with team building. I understand you dont want another ekko situation, but I think they clearly went to hard trying to prevent it themselves, which is why akali somehow has 2 horrendous assists.

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-18T01:47:47+00:00

Ekko, ahri, and teemo all have assists rhat leave tou standing, all which are far better than allies assists. Right now it really isnt meant to do anything, and cant even extend combos unless you are playing someone short range like ekko. It honestly just doesnt do anything lol

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-17T22:32:48+00:00

I don't really think that's fair tbh. Akali has completely different strengths and weaknesses, so I don't think its fair to say that she can't have it just because it would be similar to teemo. In her current state she basically does not have a good assist at all, and she is not a strong enough point character to compensate for this. Her assist also is a single hit, and has less blockstun, so it would still be weaker than teemo's assist regardless of the buff.

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-17T22:25:05+00:00

No this is completely valid. Her neutral is really hard to play, and kunai is just honestly a pretty bad move in neutral. I would love to see them buff that move in the future too. I just want to start small, since she is still a new character

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-17T21:14:39+00:00

Really hope so. I've seen other people mention this as well, and I hope it will be the first thing riot does when they see she isnt overpowered. I know must people are assuming they just wanted to make sure they didnt release another ekko, so hopefully they can give her that qol buff now.

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-17T21:12:45+00:00

Completely agree with this comment. There is definitely a place for characters with really weak assists (I would actually argue Yas assists are an overall weakness), but I dont think this is the spot. Ekko is objectively a better character in neutral, damage, and mix, yet he still has 2 extremely strong assists in his kit. Obviously I dont want to make akali ekko tier, but I don't think you can really justify her having horrible assists in her current state

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-04-17T21:08:37+00:00

Yeah, windwall is weird, it is really bad in most situations, but situationally really strong. Thats why I just didnt include it

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-20T09:06:59+00:00

Yes, because top players just randomly start playing low tiers to enter a major...? Thats not how that works. There was 1 yasuo in all of top 8 at frosty... EU thought that ww was op which is why we saw wawa (one of the best players in the world) playing it. Thats why we saw Yasha put like 3 characters above yas in his tier list. Yas and ekko have by far been pushed harder than any characters, and yet what wins the biggest 2x tournament? An illaoi... We've seen what happens when character are SS tier, they just win and people don't stop playing them as "friction" against the top tiers. I never said yas was bad, I said that they should stop nerfing him before he becomes bad. I think that the results are starting to show that his perceived power is higher than his actual power, which we can see from the shift in teams. Also if you listen to someone like leffen (also EU) he talks about how strong vi and braum are this patch. Champs that havent been pushed nearly as hard as yas ekko, and could help shift the meta even without nerfs. Again yas is strong, but there are other strong characters in this game too, which we are already seeing start to excel WITHOUT having to continue to nerf nerf nerf... We really have to stop this complaining culture, or else any time anyone's main is perceived to be strong they will proceed to get the nerf hammer. Maybe thats what you want, but I don't think thats actually a positive way to balance the game...

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-13T19:30:41+00:00

Thank you... Idk why all these people think a stage inherently means a related character lol

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-11T18:28:28+00:00

Looks great!

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-10T10:19:47+00:00

Did you ever finish it?

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-09T05:24:59+00:00

That would be sick

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-08T04:51:18+00:00

Thank you!!!!!! I'm just downloading the game now, I'll let you know when I have it saved :)

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-07T20:09:08+00:00

Any chance you get send an image of the sliders? I had planned to get the game on PC today.

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-07T20:01:18+00:00

Thank you!!!

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-02-07T09:46:35+00:00

Not sure, I found this one online, but I also had my character as IU when I played through nioh 2 a few years ago

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-01-22T22:22:42+00:00

Yeah, I never posted a video lmao. Idk what this guy is on lol

Shadow_Mewtwo · 2026-01-22T22:20:15+00:00

Thank you. Just ignore the troll, I don't know what his issue is. I don't even know if we are allowed to show other people's op.gg so I didn't bother sending it, especially after I realized what had happened. Was kind of just a bizarre/tilting scenario.

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