NERF LEBLANC! RIGHT NOW!

We all know about this shitty little whore, right?

Leblanc?

Note: This is not JUST me hating on the champ, I know of several friends and ranked (Diamond Ranked players, mind you!) and even some Riot members (not main ones, but still work at Riot) who look down upon anyone who plays this sinister, Worse-Than-Teemo, over-powered-beyond-any-capability, and horribly easy "champion".

She is nothing less than Satan's Personal Bitch in her current state.

Also Note: If you find any grammatical errors or spelling errors, you can keep 'em!

I can't tell you people HOW many games I have to go through a Leblanc mid, as she just steamrolls the game and snowballs WAY too quickly. Here's why: (Note: I will RANDOMly CAPITALIZE super RANDOM words AND stuff, so BEAR with Me PLEASE.)

-She counters nearly EVERY single APC in the game This is due to the fact that just about every APC has a main skillshot, like... -Veigar's Q and W -Zigg's EVERY Ability (I main ziggs, I can't tell you how fucking painful she is against him) -Cho'gath's Q and W -Ahri's abilities -Ez's abilities -Most of Lissandra's Abilities -All of Viktor's Abilities -All of Vel'Koz's Abilities and some I haven't mentioned because I forgot. -She also does WAY too much damage, even for an average APC

How does she counter nearly every APC? It's mainly because of 2 things:

1. Her E Obviously not a skillshot, she can simply JUMP to you, causing every spell you casted into a wasted pile of pure shit. (unless it hit some minions, then you might be fine)
2. Her Passive When low on health, she disappears and turns into 2 illusions, which is even WORSE than Wukong's illusions (because you can actually TELL if it's an illusion, this Q is just BS)

Both of these, as you can tell, make the idea of casting anything tossed out of the window Even though I think it's obvious that it's just 'counterplay'

Is it? Well let me tell you... She may counterplay APCs, but who can counterplay her?

Nobody

First off: She does WAY- I mean WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY Waaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much damage!

Wait a minute, isn't that what ALL APCs do?

That's mainly because you at least have to TIME most of your abilities as a normal APC, mainly because you're made up mostly of skillshots.

The only semi-counters to her are Malzahar's Ultimate, Veigar's Ultimate, Annie's Q, And a few other 1-target abilities

Those can kill her off, right? Nope, because of her shitty passive. Malzahar's Ulti will just stop once she disappears and turns into illusions. Veigar might 1-shot her, but could that be an illusion? Annie's Q might stun her, but she could easily turn into an illusion afterwards.

Wait, Veigs does a TON of damage with his ulti, what if he actually hit her?

First off, where'd he get the items that let him do that in the first place? Yes she has a lot of AP, but he has to have quite a bit as well.

Because she SNOWBALLS TO QUICKLY Because she's so good at dodging just about every skillshot, she's the perfect lane bully for mid! You should leave that to Zed, he's already a good lane bully (and he's semi-balanced)!

Right, where was I? Oh right. Damage.

3 things make Leblanc near Insta-Kill

1. Her AP (no brainer)
2. Her Ultimate
3. Her W (jump thingy shit) I know of times where I witnissed a 3829 health Nunu (having , , and ) had just about 321 health when Leblanc jumped on him ONCE.

ONCE. (ofc with her ult, we'll get into that)

And all she had was , and . < Not even 215 extra ability power (including the 30% bonus from deathcap)

Uhh, doesn't that boost the damage of ALL the APC abilities, like, a bajillion?

Nope. Let's take of REAL damage outputs with just about 215 AP by lvl 6.

-Veigar's Ultimate does less than 430 damage (a lot of champions will have 1350-2000 health, depending on what items/champs they have/are) -Zigg's Ulti does only 440 damage (his Q does around 350 dmg to give you the idea) -Leblanc's W (not ulti) does over 425 Damage

Not an Ultimate, ladies and gentlemen,

How did I calculate that? Simple: A(B) + C = X A = Ability Power you have B = Percentage of ability power added to ability C = Original damage from ability X = Total damage (without magic resistance calculations)

In this case, let's say an Ability (veig's Q for instance) is lvled 4, right when he reaches Level 6. It does currently 215 damage (+60% ability power), and let's say you have 80 ability power.

80(.6) + 215 = 263 dmg.

Without, of course, the calculated Magic Resistance

Technically, anyone with serious Magic Resistance can counter a Leblanc, but how many APCs can go for that? (Cho'gath is more armory than MR in most cases) Which means that any APC can easily cause Leblanc to snowball, so it'd be even HARDER for anyone like Nasus to fuck her up.

What else? Her ultimate? Well.... let's just say.... that's when things, get, worse.

Ever seen a Leblanc use her W twice in a row? How does that happen?

You just met her ultimate, Mimic.

How does it work? It mimics the ability you just recently casted.

LeBlanc can cast a mimicked version of the previous spell she cast.Mimicked Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains deal 100/200/300 (+65% Ability Power) magic damage on both instances of their damage.

Not bad, right? Because that only deals an extra 300 dmg (already pretty bad, even without calculating).

So how's that OP?

Did I mention her W (jump), Mimicked Distortion?

Mimicked Distortion deals another 150/300/450 (+98% Ability Power) magic damage when Mimicked)

(both sentences can be read on her Ultimate Ability either ingame or on the League of Legends main website, which is already updated)

So we see she already jumps on you, dealing 425 damage. What does she do?

Mimic.

So now she just jumped on you again (assuming she still had that 215 AP). Dealing another...

215(.98) + 150 = 360.7

360.7 + 425 = 785.7

NOT including her Q, which can simply finish you off (because it's not a skillshot, either!)

That's right, folks. Her W is NOT a skillshot.

Meaning she will hit you EVERY time she casts it. Veig's and Malz's ults too, assuming it's not an illusion, but still.

785.7 Damage.

Without a bit of a skillshot used.

And, ofc, part of her ability is that she teleports back after 4 seconds. So you've already died, and your jungler can't even get to her, now that she's half way to the turret (assuming he arrived on your side) Or (if your jungler went through the big bush), she can simple E you (casting chains that slow 85%) and just run off like, oh you know....

THE FUTHER-MUCKING COWARD SHE REALLY IS!

I possibly no longer need to prove how OP she is, as the calculations and pure facts scream in your face.

One more thing, doesn't Veigar do something similar?

That's assuming IF he hits you with his stun, which can still easily be dodged (especially by leblanc)

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Now that you've just finished my pure Rage-Rant (or 'whine', depending how desperate you are for an argument). You might find yourself asking this question.

How can we possibly nerf Leblanc?

You have 2 options.

1. Remove her from the game (and giving back everyone 790 RP or 3150 IP)

But that'll piss off everyone!

So just check out this small list that I just pulled out of my ass!

-Really limit the percentage of ability power it takes for extra damage -Make her Q and W both skillshots. (this makes W more like a teleport/flash than an insta-kill double leap), this will make her harassment a little less easier

Overall I thi-

Did you even look at the fact that her difficulty bar is really high?

Only complete idiots say that. FiddleSticks has a "full difficulty" bar, but that doesn't make him a difficult champ to play as, so STFU.

ANYWAYS

Overall, I think we need to have more balanced and UNIQUE Champions. Not just ones that Riot decide to: -Let's put every counter of everyone into 1 champ! -Let's make her uncounterable except for VERY few champs! -Let's make her easy as fuck! And put the difficulty bar 'high' so that people MIGHT ignore buying her!

Nono, that's not the way it should work. Make the risk higher and the rewards even greater! Put some SKILL into the game, for Christ's Sake! Stop making Annies and put interact-ability into the champ!

Yes, it's not a bad thing to snowball,

But don't make it THAT easy! Stop editing champs to be like Katarina!

JUST BLOODY NERF THIS SHIT!

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