The Assassin Rework from a LeBlanc Player's perspective

dakota saturn··5 votes·964 views

I saw all the complaints about her on the PBE and rolled my eyes and figured that the people who complain just aren't using her new kit properly, and are just crying because they can't 100-0 anyone instantly anymore.

But no, they're right. New LB is total ass to play. Her new clones last 1/4 the time of her old passive one, and her RR one is completely worthless for a 150s ability. And what sucks is that we can't even voice this, because any topics made on the subject are downvoted by people who don't read them.

When an assassin can't even kill the unfed ADC farming by himself in bot lane with no wards or support and dies because of stupid delays and damage nerfs, WHY DO WE HAVE THE ASSASSIN CLASS IN THE FIRST PLACE? What is their role if they can't kill the most defenseless, immobile class in the entire game?

Imagine you play Darius because you like being a tanky badass who can execute people. But instead, Riot decided his R is now toxic, and now instead of an execute, it is a targetted shield on a minion. You try to say "WTF Riot what am I supposed to do with this?", and are downvoted and told "LAWL YOU USE IT TO DENY CS NOOB GET GUD". You didn't pick Darius to deny CS and shield minions. You picked him to fk sht up. I didn't pick LeBlanc to dance around with useless clones that die instantly before they can deceive anyone.

That's what this is, basically.

11 Comments

KoKoboto2 votes

Lel LeBlanc can still kill adc easily, you have to use your passive now though and wait a bit instead of teleporting back right away

dakota saturn3 votes

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Lel LeBlanc can still kill adc easily, you have to use your passive now though and wait a bit instead of teleporting back right away

You do understand that late game 1.5s is several crit auto's from literally any adc, correct? You do understand LB, by far the squishiest champion in the ENTIRE ROSTER, can maybe take 2 sometimes 3 of these hits before dying, correct?

You do know forcing LB to sit next to an ADC protected by their entire team full of CC and dmg for 1.5s in a 40m game is completely retarded, correct?

yoshi27901 votes

You have to get item 3027 item 3165 item 3116 item 3020 item 3001 item 3089

Now, only viable build... [zombie-nunu-tears]

KoKoboto1 votes

In your main post you cried about how LeBlanc can't kill an adc that's alone or a support

She still can PERIOD!

Learn how to use her new ult

dakota saturn2 votes

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In your main post you cried about how LeBlanc can't kill an adc that's alone or a support

She still can PERIOD!

Learn how to use her new ult

A huge portion of her dmg is tied up in her passive - You won't always get 1.5s to get your dmg off.

It's very difficult in teamfights to mark a target, and then come back 1.5s later. Try to do it, it's almost impossible.

Catastrop1 votes

Land E. That's literally all you need to do.

Catastrop2 votes

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New LB is total ass to play.

I'm sorry but could we please stop with the dumbass exaggerations? She's perfectly playable, the only change I would say she needs is that Sigil of Malice's delay needs to scale down as the game goes on, and this might not even be necessary as RWWEQ will blow up someone up without an SoM proc late game anyway.

Michael Sykes1 votes

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the only change I would say she needs is that Sigil of Malice's delay needs to scale down as the game goes on

exactly this

feryvunny1 votes

"and now instead of an execute, it is a targetted shield on a minion. You try to say "WTF Riot what am I supposed to do with this?" and are downvoted and told "LAWL YOU USE IT TO DENY CS NOOB GET GUD". You didn't pick Darius to deny CS and shield minions"

This legit made me laugh so hard

ModKnightsKemplar1 votes

I'm holding out to see statistics. I DO think she's in a healthier spot after the changes. She may be weak. You might be right.

But I think stats are more useful for determining that than even the most seasoned pro leblanc players giving their opinion on their few games so far.

Astôlfo1 votes

lul what not to love about crappy players crying about assassins instead of learning how to play against them and then getting said assassins gutted as a result of their QQ

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