Mage Update Lissandra?

Gantian·May 5, 2016·2 votes·1,048 views

So, I'm yet to test out this mage rework, however I can't help but notice someone conspicuously absent.

Lissandra.

There was some talk waaaaaay back of changing her frankly uninspiring passive, is that still on the books?

5 Comments

WeedTitsMay 5, 20162 votes

Also Lissandra is dangerous territory to mess with, she has the potential to be VERY strong if she was given buffs. There was a time when she was dominating in the LCS after some "minor changes". They're probably scared of that again.

QuephaMay 5, 20161 votes

Lissandra's not immobile, she doesn't really have any identity or power problems, and her passive creates some gameplay things with her to make her mana pool more than just "when this runs out you have to go back"

GantianMay 5, 20161 votes

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Lissandra's not immobile, she doesn't really have any identity or power problems, and her passive creates some gameplay things with her to make her mana pool more than just "when this runs out you have to go back"

Yeah, but there was a discussion among the devs, I think it was last year that they were looking to phase out mana management passives, as they simply aren't fun and cease to be relevant after 1 or 2 items. Increasing mana costs and making a passive to handle it isn't exactly compelling design.

QuephaMay 5, 20161 votes

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Yeah, but there was a discussion among the devs, I think it was last year that they were looking to phase out mana management passives, as they simply aren't fun and cease to be relevant after 1 or 2 items. Increasing mana costs and making a passive to handle it isn't exactly compelling design.

There was a more recent post on the subject but it is a pain to find.

Here's one but it's not what I'm thinking of: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/IlooNdRZ-riot-can-you-give-us-some-answers-about-lissandra-plans

It's probably mixed into one of the threads about the MYMU and there's probably over 100 posts to sift through from all of those by now. But the gist of what they said was "The passive isn't really super exciting, but her kit overall is pretty neat and at least THIS mana passive actually affects how she plays and allows her to be a flex pick in top lane while stuff like Veigar passive you just forget about"

GantianMay 5, 20161 votes

Fair points both of them. It just for me feels out-dated and boring. Get an RoA/morellonomicon and it just doesn't affect gameplay anymore and that seems to be totally against the philosophy seen in the vast majority of other passives.