[LeBlanc] Shadow of the Rose - This ability feels so awful. Changes please?
I am a > 1m mastery point leblanc main since she was released before season 1. This rework has a lot of hit and miss in it - what's done well feels ok, and what is done poorly just makes the champion feel awful and incomplete. The 'deceiving abilities' are the biggest contention points because those were supposed to be what sold LB players on this rework. The clones are by far the most useless of all of the clone champs (shaco, wukong), when it's supposed to be LB's specialty.
One of the biggest disappointments of the whole rework is her RR - this ability is so gimmicky, so reliant on the enemy being bad, and does -nothing- 90% of the time. I would say not only is it the worst ultimate in the entire game, it's one of the worst -abilities- in the entire game. Could you imagine literally ANY champion in the entire roster losing ANY ability and having it be replaced with this garbage? It would instantly destroy every single champion because it's useless and there is no champion kit that could ever possibly make it worth having over ANY other ability in the entire game. Losing LB's entire identity so we can play with dolls makes LB mains feel so shitty and awful about this rework.
The AI is awful, where even if there is a straight line from the spawn point to the enemy, it likes to spin in circles or hump a random wall before despawning and laughing. The only person the clone trolls is LeBlanc herself. The best uses I've found for it so far are blocking skillshots, or tower diving. Trying to use it for its intended purpose is so frustrating it makes me want to throw my monitor against a wall when it uselessly stares into space for the fourth time that game. If ONE of the conditions were changed on it, it wouldn't be so bloody useless.
It seems to go against all your design philosophies when you have an ability, on one of the highest cooldowns in the game, that can literally do -NOTHING- beyond act as a glorified global blue trinket. If I wanted this, I'd pick Ashe, or Teemo, or Quinn - one of the champs that are designed to scout. Nothing feels worse than blowing a 150s cooldown when you're trying to cause confusion, when it vanishes almost immediately on entering someone's screen before they even can react, or blow a single ability.
I would GLADLY trade the global aspect of this awful ability for the ability to control the clone. Or at the very least, draw a line for the clone to follow before its braindead AI kicks in and makes it immediately run to the nearest wall to start humping it. Or, maybe not have it vanish the INSTANT it fires its ability, and have a set timer where it won't despawn before this. Or if it could just slow enemies it hits so it could actually have some combat use.
Then to add even more insult to injury, the spell isn't even usable when her regular mimic is on cooldown! The time LB needs to actually deceive more than ever is when she's trying to escape - and this of course is the one time you CAN'T EVEN USE THIS SHITTY ABILITY.
I am struggling to think of -ANY- other champion besides the Scouter champs named above who have ANY abilities that have ZERO combat use. Even These champs have extra effects on their abilities, and I'd -much- rather have Quinn's reveal ability or Ashe's hawkshot than this stupid inconsistent clone. If LB's clone doesn't catch someone completely offguard and get them to blow a flash (Which will never happen in any ELO above silver), it has ZERO combat use beyond blocking skillshots.
I know that someone will come along and tote that "LAWL UR USING IT RONG HAHAAHAA NOOOOB DOWNVOTES!!!111!!1one", but anyone who played LB significantly before the rework and after has to agree this ability just feels like complete and utter shit.