Is This The Most Broken Ability in League of Legends History?

When League of Legends newest champion, Akshan, was announced on July 7th, the community erupted about him having what looks like the most broken ability in years.

It’s supposed to be a normal ability - but it’s really not. In fact, this one move might be completely busted, possibly making Akshan the most broken champion League has ever seen -- and people are pissed.

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[Impactframess]

Did you know singed’s passive makes you move kinda faster when near champions LMAO

[vxxiii]

Akshan: * swings around *
Poppy's W: * laughs *

[nerf]

1 year later: Why Akshan is unplayable

[somedaygamin]

The sad truth is that the rest of his kit is so fun but theyre gonna gut it all so they can justify keeping the revive because its part of his lore

[menacingbread]

Back in my days, people can just press a button and revive ourselves.

[minic_xeno]

Stacked Nasus: Goes In and wastes all the enemy summs and dies.
Akshan: Revives nasus from 67 second death timer.
Enemy team: ;/

[xtremokilllercombat]

I want whatever Riot buys their balance team, my dealer slacking

[idrizzyt]

it's crazy how they can turn a "broken ability" into a 10 minute video.

[forhax]

When you realize he doesn't have to even *kill* his enemies to revive teammates. He just needs an assist. Just one autoattack and he can revive his teammates.

[zetsubou]

Buyback: The Hero

How tf is that a basic ability? Holy moly Riot lol

[ananaswastaken]

this is like if a buyback from DotA was a character but it costs no money and you dont need to wait for 5 minutes when you buyback

[DravTheGuyYT]

you get a quadra and you are 5 hp
the akshan in the bush that baited his entire teammate: hello there

[pip]

I don’t even watch league or play it but the scores titles and thumbnails are on point

[MaybeTartarus]

200+ collective years of professional game design experience

[imximx]

No1 Cares about the Champ being Busted, He IS going To be Busted anyways... But that one Champion ability has litterally a Kit of a whole Champ in it xD

[reeeec]

Why the hell is his w the revive. Even Sage in their other game has it on her ultimate lmao.

[nonvalkyrie]

If i were to change that ability i would make it reduce the respawn timer by half

[junyangluo]

I think the main problem with him is he punish people for solo carrying

[Qwenter]

Riot plans to release six champions a year, right? I feel like they should include reworks into those six so they can release crazy stuff like this but also modernize old champs at the same time, so people don't feel so age-gapped by champions.

[lPuffalo]

Bruh Caedral out here risking his job to roast riot