Akshan Receives Hotfix Due to Mediocre Win Rate

Due to a poor win rate since his release for the Sentinels of Light event, League of Legends developers implemented a hotfix buff for Akshan in order to bring some more power to his kit and success when played.

Since his release on Patch 11.14, Akshan was believed to be a champion who would've had the most ambitious ability kit in the game as he could immediately revive his own team if they were taken down, as well as being a marksman with solid gap closers and damage with it.

In order to balance this so that he's not completely broken, Riot Games developers intentionally put limitations on him to have players understand how his revive ability could affect the game. To the point that they didn't even know themselves.

"We know just how much potential this mechanic could have, and that drove us to put constraints on this effect, but we won't know exactly how much power it affords until we get to see live data," Jeevun "Jag" Sidhu wrote on a blog post.

However, the issue that arose is that the developers may have brought his power down a little too much, as his win rate since Akshan's release is 34%, good for the lowest win rate in three different roles in the entire game.

"Our data indicates his win rate to be at 34%. We knew (he'd) take some time to grow into his mastery curve, but this is still below our projections," Sidhu posted on Twitter.

That said, the hotfix buff is intended to increase his win rate by at least 2%. Akshan will receive more base attack damage from 50 to 52, an increase on his base health points from 530 to 560 and a shorter cooldown at later levels for his Avengerang (Q) from 8-6 seconds to 8-5 seconds.