So...I've never played against the Leblanc Gunblade thing until now....Why is this allowed to exist?

VoraciousX·Jan 6, 2018·1 votes·412 views

Her tether is already super long, and if she misses one she has another backup. Why is it that her tether range hasn't been reduced when gunblade makes her E basically uncounterable? Even with flash you can't get out of it unless she hits it at max range and you flash out instantly. Honestly this interaction is ridiculous and I can't believe her E range hasn't been nerfed to counteract her building gunblade considering how ridiculously easy it makes things for her. Because so far I haven't seen any attempts to get her away from building it, so if you're not nerfing her E range because you think it'll make her NEED Gunblade(It's been her most built item for a while now, over two times the pick rate of Morellonomicon, and in the games Morellonomicon is built, usually it's AFTER Gunblade), then why?

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Off HiatusJan 6, 20184 votes

So players found a method with own it's trade-offs to make a difficult champion who's pretty bad actually work in the game and you thought you need to make a thread saying it shouldn't exist because it's not the one item AP's are supposed to buy and you lost to it once? Really?

VoraciousXJan 6, 20181 votes

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So players found a method with own it's trade-offs to make a difficult champion who's pretty bad actually work in the game and you thought you need to make a thread saying it shouldn't exist because it's not the one item AP's are supposed to buy and you lost to it once? Really?

There isn't really a tradeoff. AD is AD(they generally build lich bane as well so extra damage on autos helps and 80 AP is in the higher list of AP items, especially with the damage from it's active and the slow GUARANTEEING her E will stay tethered even though it's near impossible to break the range without the slow). It's an EXTREMELY nasty item for Leblanc because of how long her E tether range is already. Also you clearly don't realize that not only does it make her E(when she hits it) 100% undodgeable, it also has insane synergy with her W>Q combo from the gunblade healing, since each of her passive procs are considered single target damage meaning she gets 100% of the item's healing from multiple targets. The only thing even remotely close to a tradeoff is the mana sustain in the early game. But heck Leblanc only needs 2 abilities to kill someone so mana sustain isn't a problem(It's not much of a problem for ANYONE anymore really).

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Gunblade is a pretty bad item to build because of its ad. Its only used for its active

really good healing synergy for Leblanc at least, and on top of that the active of that item has stupid damage anyways. If a LEVEL 1 was able to have that, they'd deal 1/3rd of someone's HP with the active alone. Level 6 and it's still basically 1/4th. But again, the active alone is ridiculous on Leblanc. There's at least a small possibility to get out of an E if she doesn't have gunblade(VERY SMALL even without it). This Leblanc literally built cutlass first item and there was basically nothing I could do near her at a semi even score(cuz I shut down their jungler and we had about the same combo of items). And even if I dodged the first, the cutlass made sure I couldn't dodge her ult>E and once hit with it there's no getting away with that slow on you, even if you have flash up.

AhrisJan 6, 20181 votes

Gunblade is a pretty bad item to build because of its ad. Its only used for its active.

MrHaZeYoJan 6, 20181 votes

Eh, I love Gunblade on Ahri and LB. 80 AP is actually pretty solid and the AD does somewhat help but the Active and Passive are both dumb strong on both Ahri and LB, specially since they use Electrocute and can grab Ravenous Hunter and augment their healing even more.

AhrisJan 6, 20181 votes

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Eh, I love Gunblade on Ahri and LB. 80 AP is actually pretty solid and the AD does somewhat help but the Active and Passive are both dumb strong on both Ahri and LB, specially since they use Electrocute and can grab Ravenous Hunter and augment their healing even more.

So much wasted stats. Too expensive as well. Better to get protobelt for more burst imo. Gunblade is a safer route as it is around 700 range and slows.

MrHaZeYoJan 6, 20181 votes

I build Ahri different every time most the time, but I like GB way more then Proto lol, again the wasted AD isn't that big for me. The Active and Passive more then make up for it. (Slow > Dash that locks you out of spells for a second) also has more AP, not having the CDR is sad if I decide to go Liandyrs instead of Zhoynas/Veil/Lich but I'll make due with Morello + Trandensent and blue.

Pretty sure the burst is the same on both of them, I always go Morello 1st on Ahri then GB if I build it. The healing is so fun, you can't force me back.