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Leona E is meant to be a Blink

NahDogSolRahn·8/25/2017, 10:08:28 AM·2 votes·1,158 views

About a week ago, I was burning through some LoL videos out of boredom when i stumbled onto the spotlights, specifically this one. In it, it states that Leona's E is a blink and it's visuals do fall in the exception space for the definition examples: Yasuo R, Lissandra E, Yi Q, and loosely, Kench R. "That causes the caster to move to a target location or unit with no travel time required." is the definition provided by LoL wiki, and these 4 abilities visuals don't fall in line with it.

I know that this could easily be a mis-label when the spotlight was put out and combined with the micro-buff she just got would be a large buff, but it seems to like it should be this way instead. Her E feels like a blink and it kills me a little inside every time i tank something mid-E "dash," the first time it happened, i was extremely confused. It would be cool to get some Red feedback on this, but with how the boards are right now, Idk if that will happen. Do you think im right, do you think I'm a silver pleb who doesn't know better, discuss it like people, not @ssholes.

6 Comments

Final Spark Lux8/25/2017, 3:47:00 PM2 votes

Oh god I miss old league so much

DeathBurst8/25/2017, 10:54:26 AM1 votes

In the video you linked, there IS a travel time, but Leona appears to be untargetable, just like with Maokai W. This is definitely NOT a blink, but it would indeed prevent her from being displaced mid-E dash.

And I'm not a Red, but with all likelihood, she has been made targetable on Live on purpose, for counterplay reasons. If you can't peel her away when she's dashing, it also means she gets a guaranteed stun just after. It's really, REALLY unlikely that this is a bug, and even if it was a bug initially, it has been so long that Leona is basically balanced around that. She would need a pretty heavy compensatory nerf if you wanted to giver her back a blink or untargetability.

Darkdemon6538/25/2017, 11:30:59 PM1 votes

It's not supposed to be a blink. While the community has always done so, Riot hadn't officially separated and defined "blinks" and "dashes" by name when Leona was released (and Riot has a poor habit of not using their mechanics' names properly anyway). I believe the first time Riot officially separated and defined them was when they changed Veigar's E to stop dashes.