Leblanc changes hitting the PBE soon

Hey guys, SmashGizmo here. We decided to make some changes to Leblanc - The Deceiver. We want her to be a healthy Assassin mage and fix some of the frustrating quirks of her kit.

Firstly, her passive led to a lot of missed opportunities. Focusing Leblanc in a fight and triggering her passive meant you had a 50/50 in actually finishing her off. This is made worse by the fact that she often just comes back when her Distortion comes off cooldown to kill you. We are making this part of her gameplay more healthy by allowing you to secure a kill on Leblanc by ALSO killing her clone. We believe this is a move in the right direction to removing some of the frustrating bits of gameplay to her kit.

We are also changing her base Health Regen to 8.4 - 18.1 from 7.4 – 16.8

She's also being given a little more health to deal with early game harass. Her base stats for health is now 550 – 1800 from 516 – 1791

We are extending the range of her Sigil of Malice to 710 from 700

The cooldown on her Ethereal Chains will be lowered to 13 / 11.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 7.5 from 14 / 12.5 / 11 / 9.5 / 8

Leblanc's clone will now have a slight movement speed boost of 10% over 4 seconds

The AP ratio for Sigil of Malice is being lowered to 20% for initial and secondary magic damage.

One of the aspects of playing against Leblanc is having her dash in your face and instantly kill you with her full combo before escaping with zero consequences. This is very frustrating to play against and so we are now adding to her passive a new ability. It will read "After securing a kill or assist all of Leblanc's abilities will go on a 10 second cooldown.".

So a total of 5 buffs and 2 nerfs. We believe these changes will make Leblanc stronger as an illusionist that excels in deceiving her enemies and getting in and out of danger with the power of her illusions. But she will also be less toxic to play against and players will enjoy her interaction.