possible lissandra fixes

JarodDempsey·2/2/2018, 6:22:08 AM·3 votes·285 views

Right now we all know lissandra needs moderate buffs to her viability (she hasnt received any notable buffs since middle of S5). Lissandra's main problems right now are: 1. lack of burst 2. lack of survivability 3. lack of reliable escape

Personally I think addressing 1 and 2 will negate the need to address 3 but I wanted to mention it simply because I hear it as a complaint from people who use her a lot.

Fixing her lack of damage, potential solutions:

  1. cause a true ice shard explosion to occur when lissandra hits enemies effected by w or r with q or e. This will bring back some of the aoe she lost when runes got changed as well as up her burst which is really needed right now.
  2. Increase damage of her skills to cc'd targets. With lissandras kit this basically guarantees more damage and isnt very imaginative.
  3. increase ratios/base damage. Trusty old buff simplest yet usually the least effective.

Fixing her lack of survivability, potential solutions:

  1. Give her a 2nd passive (one thats actually useful after lane). I suggest allowing her to absorb some of the damage she deals with the true ice she creates from her skills and recycle it to generate a shield that scales either with ult or level up to like ~500 hp or 100/200/300+10% hp. This would be similar to morde passive but it would trade a weaker maximum capacity for not decaying.
  2. Reset the cooldown of her e on kill or assist. Kha and trist both get it and their movement skills are far more useful than liss's.
  3. Give her a passive effect similar to brand but instead of more damage make it a stun. Like if she hits an enemy with 4 abilities they will be stunned for a short time (.75s) after a short duration(~2 seconds) (with a per target cooldown and not aoe). This could give her a little bit more time to make use of her e as an escape or at least delay some enemy actions.

Fixing her lack of reliable escape, potential solutions:

  1. Allow her to become the claw while it is traveling by holding e instead of pressing it making her untargetable. This would add to its reliability but also disallow her the ability to do anything else while using the claw, plus enemies would then know for sure that she is going to be wherever her claw is when she deactivates it or it ends trading the ability to juke for the untargetability as well.
  2. Have e create a field of ice that slows enemies by 20% and allows lissandra the skate across it and increase her speed by 40% persisting for like ~8 seconds.
  3. Allow her to primary cast e while self ulted.

Overall I think solution 1 for damage is the best option. For survivability I'd really like to see some form of solution 1 and I think solution 2 is a mandatory change that she should have regardless of any other changes to her kit simply due to fairness compared to trist and kha. For reliable escape I'm not a huge fan of any of these ideas since they'd all either be really op or relatively useless, I think that with 1 and 2 from survivability she could survive long enough that no other changes to e would be needed.

Feel free to comment on my suggestions and I'd love to hear yours! Liss has been in a bad spot for a really long time and has not been viable even for niche since new runes. Let's keep the discussion going until riot finally listens to us :)

1 Comments

Frozen Diva2/2/2018, 12:09:02 PM2 votes

I just hope Riot knows that she needs major buffs/changes. I really like your dmg and survivability ideas.