Why is LeBlanc's chain range so long?

It really should just be like Kled's

2 words: SIK PLAIS or THE JUKES or SELL SKINS

For some reason I cannot fathom, her chain is coded to be edge to edge and not center to center. Meaning, to break the chain, the EDGE of your hitbox facing LeBlanc needs to pass the range indicator to break the chain. For every single other chain in the game, only the CENTER of your hitbox needs to pass it. It makes it feel as though you should have broken the chain, but her chain just plays by different rules. Riot should fix it, but, you know, small indie company.

the real question should be why does a the safest assassin in the game whos also ranged have hard cc in the first place

Because shes a squishy assassin who dashes around, so it gives her some leeway. Morg and karma are beefier, and morg gets 5 on her ult.

To make her feel good about dashing into melee range and landing her (only?) "skillshot" on you before blinking back and safely waiting for it to proc.

Its toxic, we all know, I hate dealing with it, my only problem is if you take something like that away from her then whats left? She would be weak and riot has bigger issues to solve and cant afford to sit down and change her correctly.

All the better to dick you with.

To compensate for the lack of skill in LeBlanc players.

I agree nerf her W by 10 damage. /s

Because it's a skillshot with a dealayed effect; why must it be necessary to break?

if a skill includes CC + long range, they have to be lower damage, if riot going to response, its like "no we need more extra damage so we are going to reduce chain CC duration to 0.75 sec but increase its ap ratio to another whole level"

See orn/sejuani are the fine examples.

has the range changed in the last decade? (genuine question)

Because counterplay is overrated it seems

The range should be based on how far away she was when she landed it on you. If she's basically in melee range, it should be far shorter. If she shoots it from a long range and it required a lot of skill to land that shot or patience in waiting for them to walk around a wall when you had vision on them...the range on the leash should be long. That's fine. But what's toxic about her is her jumping on people, leashing them, and she doesn't have to hold the leash? Am I understanding this correctly? Because I haven't been playing her much myself I just know when good players play her they are really good at abusing her and it feels unfair to play against.

Because the main counterplay is to dodge the chain, not to break the tether. If you look at Karma's or Nocturne's Tethers, they have click and point, so the only available counterplay is to break the tether. Leblanc, since hers is a Skillshot, why would you give it the same counterplay as much shorter ranged Click and point Tethers. I'll leave my Kled comparison piggybacked on Fear the Kayn's post, since I want to respond to that too.

Because they took away the slow it used to give for its duration.

The fact that she can just Q and E you to proc electrocute assuming you get snared is kinda dumb. I love it when she can all in you with a combo and then just W back away before you can react assuming you're not dead.