Should you be able to control Leblanc's "Shadow of the Rose"

Asuka Akashta·10/28/2016, 9:04:12 PM·2 votes·1,048 views

So I've played a lot of Leblanc on the PBE, and I'm generally happy with the changes. However, the one thing that I'm not that happy with, is her new ultimate, well, the "Shadow of the Rose" portion. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of it, and I've gotten some funny moments where people flash away or people use their full combo on it. However that's a rare occasion. I personally think that you should be able to control the clone like you could with your old passive. I'm aware that you can do it with your mimic clone when you cast another ability, but that doesn't last quite long enough, unless you are using your chains. One reason I say this is because, I'd say 45% of the time, I'll place my clone in the Jungle, near for example Wolves, and there will be an enemy in the mid lane by our tier 2 tower, and the clone will walk the complete opposite direction, just to get lost and disappear. I think if we could control it that would be much more deceptive. It doesn't have to do dmg still, and you should be able to attack whoever, just make it so you can walk around and once you get the nearest enemy it will automatically cast your spell. IMO that would be much more believable. One thing I would like to do with it is recall, walk to lane around through the jungle and sit in the side bush, and ult my clone in the other bush and walk out at the same time, so that the enemy doesn't know which one is which. However, it's just something about the clone that doesn't seem natural, like it will walk directly through minion waves to get to people, huge minion waves in which most people wouldn't.

I think maybe an alternative to controlling it would be if there's an enemy on the other side of a huge minion wave, maybe the clone will just stand there and auto the minions for a few seconds, and if the person gets close enough then the clone will cast the spell?

Alternatively, One thing the clone could do is if you have it cast your chains, the clones chains will actually latch to the enemy, but won't root them or do damage, and the clone will walk along side them to make sure the chain will latch. Smart players will realize that the first part of the chains didn't do any damage, so they know it's the clone, but unaware victims will (hopefully) have to pop a flash or their movement ability to get out

Idk these are just my opinions, and I do like the current ult, I just think that people are going to get used to the way the clone behaves, and I also think in high elo people will be able to tell the clone apart very easily.

What are your thoughts, do you think the ult should stay the same, or do you think it should be controllable? OR do you think something else entirely that riot could do with the clone to make it more deceptive?

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