Can we talk about LeBlanc for a sec?

THExJACKAL·4/4/2014, 3:10:05 AM·1 votes·248 views

Okay so, LeBlanc is a pretty powerful champion, no arguments there, especially when she's played well, hell, even when she's played somewhat decent, she's still extremely powerful. The only real issues I have with her, is that her cooldowns are all so very low. I mean her ult doesn't cost mana for one, and has a 40 sec cooldown at level one and goes down to 24 sec at level 3. Her highest cooldown is on her distortion, which at max level is only 10 seconds. Add in some cooldown reduction from items and masteries, and these cooldowns are shortened even less. Basically allowing her to spam her abilities like crazy, especially with her ult not costing any mana whatsoever, which also increases the damage of the ability being mimicked. What I'm getting at, is she needs to have her cooldowns raised a bit, and give her ult some sort of mana cost. LeBlanc can essentially go to town so easily, with very little usage of resource. Yes she's squishy as most mages are, but when you can cast distortion 3 times in 15 seconds, using her ult, its like have 3 extra flashes, and she can escape so easily. Her stats as far as damage go, can either stay the same, or go down just a little, but her cooldowns, and mana cost should be raised a bit.

6 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum4/4/2014, 6:12:13 AM1 votes

It's a difficult thing to balance because of the versatility of her kit. All of her abilities have so many use cases if you nerf her offensive capability you're also nerfing her mobility and defense. Now I'm not saying she doesn't need a bit of a tuning, I wouldn't be surprised if her mana costs got raised by hair on her W, but it will take a lot of abuse and popularity for her cooldowns to be looked at imho.

ChaosThief4/4/2014, 2:56:11 PM1 votes

Leblanc is actually balanced, and falls off TERRIBLY late game.

Unless she has a 2.0 scaling on both Q procs or something OP, just last into late game and catch up in gold. Anyone with some health and resistance can turn and kill her on the spot.