About dealing with aftershock Lissandra
TL:DR - Please don't completely nuder Lissandra as a champ in doing this. Take a creative route rather than straight damage and sustain nerfs
Now, I am by no means a Lissandra expert, but even with incredibly limited experience. understand where the issue is coming from. When get an unfavorable trade, I typically don't come out the other side too bad, and in a good trade where i get my aftershock they can blow their whole combo on me and it feels like they did no damage. It feels so good, but I understand why it would be too strong. She feels like the "AP Bruiser" they wanted Sylas to be. Here are my ideas on how to deal with it
1.)Replacing aftershock on ranged champs: Just an alternate rune. Maybe something that would open up new paths for ranged tankier champs like urgot, rakan, or actually making sylas a bruiser
2.)Nerfing aftershock on ranged champions: At the moment, when looking through some guides or gg sites the only ranged champions I see using aftershock are fiddlesticks, Thresh, and lissandra. This would encourage players to bring a different rune on lissandra. However, fiddlesticks in a pretty good spot balance wise atm from what I can tell, but the aftershock just makes him annoying. I am not sure what this would do to him as a champ. Worse even however is the affect it would have on thresh. Maybe allowing thresh passive to give him both armor and mr would offset the damage this would do. But I am just some spitballing silver/bronze player here.
3.)just normal balancing(tho it would be a shame if lis ratios became to low and she turned into a tank)
4.)Pull a pyke on one of her abilities as a passive: Take a portion of her armor and mr she gains and redistribute it to AP. Granted, people would still take aftershock on her, and she might need some damage nerfs, but it would be an interesting concept that would make her easier to play against and not a tank.
5.)Cater to the ap bruiser play style: Take an ap ratio off of one of her abilities and give it some weird adjust, like reducing E damage but giving her more resistances if she chooses to teleport.
6.)Nerf sustain at low levels, increase low level base damage: Make her go for high burst on single or a few targets. Instead of poking and trading in lane she goes for all ins early. Perhaps with would get more people to take electrocute to win the early lane
If anyone gets to the end of this for some reason, have a cookie. Also, any criticism, constructive or not, would be appreciated in the comments. Have a nice day and best of luck on the rift
