Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-190.19.250.58-20130313060616/@comment-178.166.24.118-20130314004843

You're joking, right? For starters Lux was never consider a trash tier pick, she has always been a strong utility mage who was generally overlooked in early and mid 2012 in favour of stronger AoE champs like Orianna, Morgana, Anivia or Karthus, who didn't rely on too many skillshots. That said, SK's Ocelote was the first player to run Lux as a competitive pick on a regular basis and other mid lane players followed suit. And it all began when she got buffs to her E (the cd starting as soon as you cast the spell instead of waiting for the detonation, which was a MASSIVE QoL buff) and later in Jayce's patch a bunch of mana buffs. So yeah, Lux began to get picked by pro teams like half a year ago so I'm not sure where you got the 'trash tier' idea.

As for Akali the reason she wasn't picked too often was due to the nature of top lane, where teams usually ran the 3.5k hp metagolems who sat in the frontline and tanked spells for days. Even in the epitome of double AP comps Vlad and Rumble were favoured over Akali because AoE was a huge deal in S2. Anyway, she saw a decrease in popularity after the nerf to Gunblade, but Akali was always THE biggest solo queue top lane pubstomper in S2, along with Riven, Irelia and eventually Darius. After the S3 changes she got picked for the same reason Katarina was: her base damage is insane even without lots of AP items and the reset mechanisms allow her to cleanup fights with extreme effectiveness.

Moving on to LeBlanc, how do you suggest to nerf a champion who wasn't picked at all in the last major tournament (LCS) and currently holds a mediocre win rate in solo queue of 45%? If anything she needs her kit to be tuned up, not nerfed. And no, she won't get picked in tournaments aside from an ocasional place as a niche support because in competitive play no one will dare to pick a mid laner with no wave clear potential, unless it's Ryze because Ryze es #1.