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Some QoL nerfs to balance LeBlanc

Mephistophilis·5/16/2015, 3:20:29 PM·9 votes·731 views

I called them Qol nerfs because those changes I propose are thought to make life easier for her enemies, that maybe can play around her (winning or losing) without saying Wtf every minute.

  • W: There is now a 0.75 (1?) second cooldown before distortion can be reactivated.

Context: giving her the Zed treatment, so if she goes in with W, opponents have time to react and punish her if she did a poor engage. I would also propose to make this change only on W, and mantain the instarecast on her RW, being it an ultimate. This change will surely hit her laning, but I think it's already strong enough for an assassin.

  • E: Reduced the hitbox to actually match the animation. Reduced tether range. Buff damage and/or snare duration.

Context: right now Ethereal chains is almost undodgeable, with his huge (invisible) hitbox and really long tether range. This change is aimed at "Separing the good players leBlancs from the bad ones". The buffs on damage or root duration are here to increase the reward for a harder-to-land spell.

Thoughts? Leblanc

10 Comments

One Bind Morgana5/16/2015, 3:32:02 PM10 votes

i think we should leave lb's tether range as global

stuartk115/16/2015, 3:28:20 PM2 votes

Can we just give her ultimate a mana cost? I like the change to her W, though we have still to see the effect it has on Zed. I'm willing to bet that the change will be implemented on LeBlanc as a 1 second wait before re-casting it. I feel that the tether range on her E is quite high, but I'm not sure if it warrants being nerfed though, since it does mean she doesn't have any instantaneous hard CC, which with the change on her W would let her opponents have the opportunity to retaliate to her damage aswell.

idoki5/16/2015, 6:38:47 PM2 votes

I wonder how many players in the forums actually know the definition of QoL, because these are straight up nerfs (not that I'm against them, I loathe LeBlanc with all my heart)

Remlap12235/16/2015, 3:47:12 PM1 votes

But if she can actually be killed, that wouldn't be fun to watch. We need LeBlanc to blink around the map for the #LC$PIGBLAYZ

Decaedeus5/17/2015, 5:14:07 PM1 votes

My thoughts as a LB player: No to the first one. LeBlanc isn't an AD assassin; her trading patterns in lane FORCE her to use Q W and instantly back out. With the delay LeBlanc would be a horribly weak laner and be even more feast/famine than she is already. That is, in large fights, LeBlanc would either a) instantaneously delete someone like she does already, and the teamfight would be over, or b) chunk off half of their health, then stand there looking stupid while the enemy team collapses on her and explodes her. This change would ruin LeBlanc and make her kit even more binary than it is already.

Second one. Yes. Don't buff the E damage and/or root duration. Just shrink the hitbox, leave the tether as it is. LeBlanc doesn't need more damage. She already 100-0s most people pretty quickly with QREW, so I think just shrinking the hitbox to give players more windows of opportunity to counter LB is enough.