By Sylph.Shinobu 2012-03-20 14:28:14
oh yeah, I should probably add in why I play poppy as a straight ad and not hybrid:
When they nerfed the balls out of hextech, they effectively made hybrid only really feasible if the other team feeds you due to the stupidly high cost of the items for it and to top it off, it no longer is as badass to do this anyway.
Before the nerf, as jax, i routinely go almost no feed early game but the second I got hextech and rageblade I was suddenly able to drop entire teams. I straight 1v5'ed as him before with just the hextech, rageblade and a GA and won. If the last 2 people didn't decide to split up and run I'd have killed all 5 of them. Jax used to be able to single-handedly win games. I won a game as him before with the entire other team being full build and my entire team averaging 4/10/10 and not nearly enough lasties to make up for it. Jax is but a mere shell of what he was not even a year ago :'(.
That's my jax speech...
To go off of that, I find akali to be a monster hybrid purely due to slows. I do something considered stupid usually, I get rylies and trinity on her. Her ability to eat people is devastating without feed, so she doesn't need the craziness of the old hybrid to eat things.
In the end, next to everything is viable, it's just that the meta calls for safe and reliable. You can never rely on getting hero kills without sacrificing the safe part.
Without feed, hybrid falls so far behind, but if you are being fed then hybrids one of the best snowballs. Anyway, that's my two cents, take it or leave it.