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As a LeBlanc player it feels terrible being killed by an ADC before my passive even procs

Seolhyunari·9/15/2017, 3:52:59 PM·9 votes·1,141 views

I'm not saying LB is weak or anything, I know she's a strong champ, she's gotten me from B2 to P3 in 2 months along with Swain. The problem is her role is so muddled after the ADC gets a few items. You can't be an assassin because the ADC has more burst than you, you're terrible vs the frontline and you can't really kill a competent mage either, since they'll have rushed Banshees + Mercs to survive lane. So what can you do apart from peel for your ADC, like all the other roles do?

I get the idea behind adding a delay to her burst, adding time to react is never a bad idea (albeit, I do think 1.5 sec is a little long), but when you're not gonna reduce the burst of other champs it creates problems. On the contrary, it feels like ADCs were actually given MORE burst this season because of the Shiv buffs and overall item price reductions.

I know Riot want to take time with her rework because they're worried about balancing her competitive presence with player satisfaction/performance but could we not get small changes before a full rework like Aatrox, etc? Also, I feel like she isn't really played in competitive as an assassin, like most of her players want her to be, moreso just for her strong gank assist to get lane priority and ultimately get her bot lane ahead/enemy bot lane behind.

ORRR, instead of all that, I know everyone hates direct nerfs to ADCs, but maybe we could just reduce burst damage on ADCs, maybe just a little?

27 Comments

i cant move wtf9/16/2017, 2:24:36 PM7 votes

You could have trimmed the title to "As a LeBlanc player it feels terrible" and ended the post there. We know and we're grieving.

PePsiLemoNN9/15/2017, 5:46:37 PM3 votes

As an ADC player , it felt terrible when LB 1shot me before I could react. What now?

Zëd Lęppelin9/15/2017, 4:55:32 PM3 votes

I know the feels. I been playing Talon a shit ton and as soon as mid game is over I actually feel like a fucking potato.

TwinkiePro9/21/2017, 1:27:04 AM2 votes

As a leblanc hater It's better than when she would WQR and pop a squishy with zero counterplay.

Poske9/15/2017, 5:14:53 PM2 votes

you are playing her wrong download some of my games take lectures

Yaskamasandwich9/15/2017, 6:15:51 PM2 votes

LeBlanc and basically all other Assassins needed that delay burst. People so easily forget the stupidity when LB pops from no where, erases your Marksmen, and then leaves before anyone could blink an eye. Even if you have vision on old LB you could not do too much to save your carries if she was very good. There was a reason she was Faker's number one favourite, having legendary status with 0 deaths in a world level tournament. Delayed burst to Assassins was needed.

HOWEVER the part where Riot screwed up was not removing burst from all other classes. Marksmen and Mages can burst from a safe distance. All bursts needed to be delayed not just Assassins. Marksmen take it even further with their sustain burst.

Edit: Correcting spelling errors.

HotNSpicy4209/16/2017, 4:18:56 AM1 votes

This just in a squishy chamption gets 0 to 100 with crit,ad,lifesteal.

Hexs Fortune9/16/2017, 3:32:01 PM1 votes

Which adc is overtuned? Be specific

All Skillzz9/15/2017, 6:22:41 PM1 votes

like fizz if she even got 1 kill in lane and cause her damage was point an click she would erase you the moment you went to cs and once she got really far ahead of you she would just roam or dive you. she still does stupid as fuck burst with gunblade. most time when playing ap ez who shit all over old leblanc i feel like if i dont get my gunblade first she is gonna snowball out of control.