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I feel like LeBlanc should be reverted back to her rework to fit her character identidy

EmpressOfBeauty·9/1/2018, 3:20:19 PM·9 votes·3,308 views

I would say that I am a Leblanc main, I really love the champion's concept and her skins, everything about her (I know this is an unpopular opinion for most and that alot of people can't stand her) but I really love her.

Alot of LeBlanc mains may disagree with me, but I want to request to Riot that they bring back the rework she received in the assassin update, mainly for the RR ability "Shadow of the Rose" because in my opinion it holds down to her identidy of being a deceiving person as well as adding some creativity and fun to her kit. Her ultimate in her original (and reverted) state in my opinion is boring because it is just a mimic of her other spells with added damage.

I think we all can agree being bursted by this champion feels unfair and requires a bit of magic resist to feel safe, which is also why with the reworked Leblanc Sigil of Malice being a passive that had to activate after 1.5 seconds, it gave enemies just a bit of time to react before the damage came through. Plus, it made item 3146 and item 3100 very viable on her because she could auto attack as the passive was loading for alot of damage. Now it is so instantaneous and no one can react fast enough to try and stop it and even as a Leblanc lover I must admit it is crazy.

Also, the reworked Leblanc had nice waveclear! LeBlanc players who know the animation of her auto attack also know how tricky it can be to last hit with her. It is so delayed and if you are turned away from the minion she has the slowest turn around animation before she hits them.

I liked Sigil of Malice bouncing around from enemy to enemy after a Distortion, for waveclear as well as it was visually appealing for me.

But mainly I liked the double R ability. It was fun to be able to spawn it anywhere on the map and confuse enemies, it could really deceive them and throw them off their game and help your teammates get an edge in when the enemy falls back thinking they are being ganked. The passive taking 1.5 seconds as well I liked, because even though she still had alot of burst enemies could find just a bit of time to disengage or counterattack, zhonya active out, or anything.

I would hope any other LeBlanc players would realize how broken she is and maybe that revert to the rework would be a good step in slowing down how fast she can all in and delete a champion. The rework made her a bit more challenging to play and not as boring with her combos and gave her more creativity to go with them as well as more fun (to me) and it made her not so easy for such high damage she puts out.

And honestly her R now feels just like Karma's R, empowering her abilities.

And yes I understand that as an assassin mage Riot likes her to be able to murder any squishy who goes off alone by herself but her burst offers little to no counterplay with how fast it is.

[leblanc-funny]

22 Comments

Irelia Bot9/1/2018, 3:27:12 PM4 votes

Reworked leblanc sucked to play though...

ankoanko199/1/2018, 6:21:21 PM1 votes

Lol why? The RR was only used as a blue trinket, it was rare that someone fell for that trick after like 2 months of her rework being released. Nevermind how absurdly broken she was, where her W dmg was gutted with 70% and her passive dmg with 40% and yet she STILL was op!

Shablagoo9/1/2018, 10:42:34 PM1 votes

Your a LB main with 10 games? Really? Idk man I think both are super oppressive, but honestly the old LB wouldnt be able to survive in this meta, burst is high early and waiting a few seconds is like a death sentence for most champions especially squshy ones like LB. Personally I think LB q should be a skillshot to add more skill expression, there is to much dmg in that ability.

taleofsonata9/2/2018, 6:43:57 AM1 votes

Who the fuck still thinks reworked leblanc fit her identity? Did you watch the SIV HD video on why the reworked leblanc doesn't fit her identity? Are you that ignorant to not know whats fun and whats just useless? Have you been living under a rock all these times and never played old LB and you still have the guts to compare her to the ridiculous clown of a rework she had to deal for 2 years?

Mafia LeBlanc9/2/2018, 1:04:24 PM1 votes

She wasn't an assassin because of the delays. She couldn't kill an ADC in a teamfight anymore. She was a lategame glorified splitpusher.

Her RR was on a retarded AI and would be unpredictable and more often than not would do some awkward stutter step 5 feet in front of her and then vanish without even appearing in the enemy's vision.

The rework was also so disgustingly unbalanced that they had to straight up delete her W to make her even remotely balanceable. Her passive made her one of the best pushers/farmers until they made it basically a non-factor with the nerfs as well.