How is Leblanc "healthy"?

SIayton·Mar 5, 2015·6 votes·659 views

With the recent nerfs to Veigar because of lack of counter play, shouldn't Leblanc be next? She's basically "click on enemy to kill them" with massive mobility AND disengage and takes no commitment to do her ridiculous, undodgeable burst. IMO the champ just needs a rework to be healthier. There's a lot of cool stuff they could do with illusionist mage but "girl who flies into you face first and throws squares at you" isn't really what I imagine when I think of that archetype.

What are other people's thoughts on the state of Leblanc? Is it time she got worked into a healthier, more counter play friendly state?

6 Comments

Solidair3Mar 5, 20152 votes

I rarely have difficulty with her, personally, but as someone who's played a lot of LB, I guess I have the advantage of knowing what she's going to do and how she's going to do it. Uncommon mid laners like Morgana, Kayle, Karma, Viktor, Malzahar are all pretty good against her, you just have to not be so afraid of stepping out of the meta picks.

LB really only excels at picking enemies that are out of position and in the lategame, and she has a lot of trouble assassinating unless she's REALLY ahead then as well. She has basically 0 teamfighting potential, and that's the key. A few early ganks to get your mid ahead against her will essentially shut her down for the entire game, LB is a very feast or famine sort of champion, and I think that's by design.

LeBlanc just suffers from the same thing as Katarina, she so easily preys on stupidity. I can't deal when I ping my bottom lane that LeBlanc is coming to kill them, only to have them chase the enemy to their tower, and giving her a double kill. It's really irritating, but that's just a fact of soloQ.

Deadly MittensMar 5, 20151 votes

She has slight counterplay in her skill shot chain and relience on comboing with q that can telegraph her position, in addition to the fact that unlike many other blinks hers is a dash that she can be hit during just by aiming at her starting position if she's attacking you with it.

Mainly though Riot has nerfed her numerous times without much/any compinsation and doesn't seem that concerned with bringing her back into the spotlight.

SIaytonMar 5, 20151 votes

Yeah but this is an online game. By the time you react to her dash she's already hit you with Q and E and teleported back. All of it happens in under a second. And most stuns or CC you could use to stop her from swapping back have a delay so even with the fastest reaction time, its almost impossible to stop.

IMO they should make it so there's a 2 second delay before she can swap back with her W, that way she HAS to commit. She can keep her ridiculous burst just.... make her have to commit. Also make Q a skillshot because well, click for damage is going out the door.

TerribleRyzeMar 5, 20151 votes

She isn't. Honestly she is just as healthy as lee sin was. Its just if they nerf her people will be PISSED.

DarthSpectrumMar 5, 20151 votes

I seen a fairly good suggestion to lower than Q detonation damage when combo'd with W but keep it the same when proc'd with E. That, or make her Q a skill shot.

Her current combo is ridiculous, only delusional people believe that is fair at all for the other party unless it is a Galio or Ahri. In laning phase, her combo easily deals 50% of your HP if everything lands.

LB is much worse than Zed. Akali, or Lee Sin in terms of mobility and the amount of CC needed to stop it.

ApplyForAGrantMar 5, 20151 votes

No said said LeBlanc is healthy, just because Riot Veigar and Kassadin are nerfed first doesn't mean they don't care about LeBlanc. She's bound to get nerfed if her 50% ban rate continues.