@Riot In light of Leblanc's upcoming partial revert...

IxtaliKing·12/1/2017, 1:14:55 PM·5 votes·957 views

What about Karma? Considering her gameplay/balance issues are the result of her 5.10 changes, and the subsequent efforts to make them work - wouldn't this approach be equally as applicable to Karma?

Perhaps that way you'll have a better base for whatever mechanics you change in her 2018 update.

Edit: Meddler: Leblanc has some issues that we definitely want to address at some point. In her update last year, we resolved some of the problems that plagued her but introduced some new ones in the process. We took some time recently to test several variations of new spells on her kit. While a lot of them were interesting, they didn’t feel like the set of changes that would solve her problems and satisfy the desires of both camps of Leblanc players (those that prefer the old version and those that prefer the new one). If we’re updating Leblanc again, we need to make sure that it nails it, rather than just creating an additional group of players that prefer now an additional version of Leblanc. Having not found anything that we were satisfied with yet, we’re opting to table further Leblanc rework explorations for now as we focus our efforts on systems and champs that need more urgent attention (ie. Runes Reforged follow-up). For the time being, we’re going to look to tweak some things around to be a mix of both pre- and post-rework Leblanc until we have the time to invest deeply in kit explorations again..

^ That is literally what Karma's rework did, then again with her 5.10 update.

7 Comments

Succubús GF12/1/2017, 5:26:57 PM4 votes

Honestly if karma and lb both got partial reverted id cry tears of sweet joy for meddler doing something good [leblanc-funny]

Warden Karma12/1/2017, 1:37:08 PM2 votes

Completely agree. Though I have to say its probably quite hard as they created 3 different Karma's as of now. It was already hard enough to do the VGU for Old Karma (which they failed). Now Riot has to unite 3 playerbases.

(Maybe you should mention, what Riot said about their work on Leblanc. I am not sure if everyone read this in 'ask Riot' so it might be helpfull for those who did not.)

Shendelzare112/1/2017, 1:22:58 PM1 votes

I agree that Karma needs an update but not before LeBlanc,Karma is in lets say balanced state right now and every newbie can learn her while LeBlanc is only being played well by her mains including me.If newbies see that LeBlanc is really hard to play and not worth to play like other assasins (Kata,akali,talon,zed etc..) they will start to hate LeBlanc and wont play her for a long time,because why would they keep playing her next to them?