RiotRayYonggi

I think should be fixed this upcoming patch

Thanks! She's awesome imo totally not biased take

Yeah I posted somewhere else that those have been historically pretty learnable, but it's totally possible we aren't doing the best in this space and that there's room for improvement. It'll be worth a discussion at least which I'll likely have internally at some point soon.

Yeah maybe. I've personally found the damage those do to be more learnable, but with that said it's possible if they need some love in the future that we go that direction. I'll bring that up

Anecodtally, MOBA's as a genre have not seemed very mainstream, especially in the west. Inversely, sports games and shooters are very popular in the west proportionately to the east.

In the end though, being picked on for what you enjoy is lame, and I personally wouldn't consider them good friends if they teased me for liking the hobbies I do.

I wouldn't expect us to add it to Riven as hers is an AOE ability that is equally useful to use for just damage. It's often correct to cast Riven R for maximum targets hit rather than for executing a single target, so adding the indicator would actually encourage incorrect casts, unlike Akshan, Pyke, Cho'Gath, etc.

As other people mentioned in here, my theory is that Nasus is a stronger scaler in the recent metas as melee mids and tops are far more popular than historically. Also tanks and control mages are low popularity now, and those champions (in teamfights at least) can hold nasus down long enough to be kited by high DPS classes like marksmen. As of late, Nasus just paths through a fight Q-ing each squishy target he passes by, regardless of game length.

Akshan's indicator is there for a couple reasons (that are mostly consistent with the other champs you mentioned):

• This is an ultimate level execute ability, so it having more consistency (through an indicator) makes it more exciting rather than frustrating for the user.
• Akshan R has variable charge time and you can easily be punished for charging too long (the opponent can access the counterplay by ducking behind cover). Having the indicator gives the Akshan a clear indication of how long to charge without having to have X games on the character to feel out all the breakpoints.
• Akshan R indicator does not turn on before you start casting. Akshan is already commiting to a cast before he even gets it.
• Other champs (like Kalista) have very low penalty to "missing" the execute threshold, in both cooldown and damage lost.

Good callout, we are planning some mitigating mechanics changes pre-ship I believe for ARAM.

They might seem that way, often when characters are revealed and first impressions come out, people will just rattle off mechanics back-to-back without any context. The same can be applied to a lot of old champions.

Karthus: Stays alive for 4 seconds after he dies, high radius AOE magic damage, reduces all magic resist on enemy team, high dps spammable aoe ability, global nuke ultimate from anywhere on the map.

That said, we have a philosophy to never re-print the exact same ability twice. This means every new champion will have 3+ things that haven't been seen before, and can be jarring for players at first release, then becomes more comfortable over time.

We aimed to give each unique mechanic in his kit some pretty large trade-offs, especially in both DPS and counterplay.

He will deal good dps for an assassin but not for a marksman. It's all relative.

500 range, low AA dps. Also power budget in W roaming, which is mostly inaccessible from bottom lane.

Some general notes: W Revive only works if they are recently damage by you (similar to Rengar/Katarina). This is to keep him from just tagging everyone and calling a teamfight won.

As for the last points related to "game ruining experiences", the same can be said for a lot of champions. When Karthus presses R and gets a pentakill, ending the game from 6000 units away, that is an experience that happens very rarely, but sometimes. Defining the health of a game based upon the very best/worst case scenarios for every ability in the game is disingenuous, but keeping an eye out for how frequently they occur is important. If it's trivial for Akshan to flip games using his revive, it will be adjusted, but in testing that has not been the case.

Correct! If an enemy is very close to you (touching practically) or in your path, the swing cancels. This keeps it from being viable to escape champions that gapclose to you.

Correct

PtA and Electrocute are crowd favourites. For mythics we like galeforce for burst, but kraken/shieldbow are nice as well.

His level 1 is quite good (Passive+Q), but after that he gets less combat power than Tristana/Lucian. He does not consistently bully/solokill like those mids

Akshan's shield in particular allows him to take trades in lane on an infrequent cadence, similar to Viktor Q. Without it, he would need very high damage stats (particularly base AD) to trade into most midlaners due to his low AA range.

Passives are assigned during initial champ development based off however the character is meant to be played. Using Zed as an example, his is meant to increase his burst on lower health targets, giving him clear opportunities to W in or commit to kills. This would not have fit the pattern for a ranged marksman like Akshan.

Also it doesn't go over walls