I'm confused on how 'Leblanc Mains' are Thinking on her Current PBE Changes

MinaZer0·3/6/2017, 7:49:48 AM·1 votes·1,232 views

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with these upcoming 'nerfs' to her W, they are acting as if they are removing W's ability to activate her passive, its actually a buff , because it changes leblancs overall playstyle, now W won't be used to just slam her face into the enemy team so often (safer playstyle),

It will be used for waveclear, (even more so because Q is getting a ridiculous buff against minions and overall damage) mobility and occasionally for passive.

Doesn't seem too bad to me, I NEVER wanted Leblanc's playstyle to FORCE her to be placed in melee range, which gives her opponents less outplay potential, so not sure they want to let these changes through.

2 Comments

Bunnymap3/6/2017, 11:52:26 AM1 votes

The point is less about power and more about what she's becoming. Leblanc has always been an assassin with a huge amount of damage and mobility, but no waveclear without sacrificing her mobility. This is why Leblanc was balanced and not dominating every game before. With the rework, riot thought it was a good idea to completely remove that weakness and give her waveclear. Next they decide to make her W do almost no damage so she uses it to always run instead of go in close range like an assassin should do.

TLDR, Leblanc is becoming a kiting mage who runs away the entire game without actually having weaknesses like lack of waveclear

Hupsis3/6/2017, 12:36:41 PM1 votes

I like to play Leblanc and think these nerfs are overall necessary.

Currently the only way to play LB is to max W first and use it as her primary spell for everything (dmg, mobility, juking/deceiving, aoe sigil). There's just way too many components to it for LB not to max it first always. Reducing the damage will most likely push her to max Q first which delays her mobility in the early game. W is still a very important spell which allows passive to proc on multiple enemies.

Q minion dmg buff is a direct counter buff for wave clear which W dmg provided.

I hope these nerfs will finally drop her ban rate... although win rate will likely also suffer.