Lissandra PBE Passive @Riot
Lissandra's passive has always been lackluster. It's essentially a Nunu passive with different charging mechanics. X Spell costs no mana.
Every champion in the game has 4 abilities, and they could be buffs, shields, line skillshots, dashes, blinks, etc. It's harder and harder to find a unique way to create a QWER spell. But a champion's passive.... That should mark them from everyone else. A unique identity. Something that champion alone can do.
Lucian & Master Yi both double strike. Lucian's makes sense, he's got two guns. Yi's could be modernized. Nasus & Morgana's are scaling spell vamp and lifesteal. Lux and Leona's spells have a debuff that's procced off autos and does magic dmg. Galio and Diana. Every so often their melee auto becomes AoE. Blah etc.
We see the unique ones. Katarina's Voracity resets. Kled's Skaarl. Cassiopeia's Serpentine Grace. Viktor's Hextech cores.
Unique effects/abilities that strengthen their identity.
Then there is Lissandra. A free spell? When her build typically has her buying items that make mana costs irrelevant.
She's an evil Ice Witch. She's often referred to as the "CC Queen." She is cold and sadistic. She has her sights set on taking over the entire Freljord and she is supposed to be Ancient and immortal and the Herald of the Watchers. She's ICEBORN.
I do feel her passive should be connected to CC, but that should make her stronger. Not a little more mana healthy? And the testing for empowered Autos didn't feel right, cause Autos don't really function in her kit flow - and it looked awkward.
When Lissandra was released, it was mentioned that her job isn't to necessarily kill the enemy team/carries, but to set up the game for her teammates. I loved the change made to her ultimate about restoring lost HP should she use it on herself. Cause the dive and lockdown is her kind of play. Her kit is centered around her body. She is a controller. She's a living ice nuke and if you tempt her, she will absolute zero you down.
So how come you can't try giving her a boost when she does inflict her cool embrace on foes? When Annie casts a spell, she gets a charge for a stun. When Ahri lands her spells she gains stacks to suck some of the soul out of her enemies with a spell.
How come Lissandra can't charge up a new resource based on cc landed on champions?
Q - Heavy slow on first target hit, smaller slow/damage to those hit with chunks? Like Zed. (Increase counterplay in laning, reward her positioning)
Passive - Iceborn - When Liss affects an enemy champion with a cc ability, she gains a stack. Some number grants her next ability bonus true dmg, or converts it to true dmg.
I used to love playing Lissandra. But she just isn't unique anymore and she isn't living up to her full potential.
