Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-7846894-20140610063806/@comment-15244341-20140613112210

Assassins=trade poorly? Uuuh not really. Zed. Ahri. Fiora. Lee Sin. Fizz. Kha. Pantheon. Riven. Rengar. AP Tristana. Veigar. Yasuo. LB herself. Akali.

Those are assassins. Those trade like bosses. Not as hard as bruisers like Darius, Garen or Renekton, but these champions are actually built around trading. By virtue of what a trade is (short damage exchange) assassins have the upper hand over most mages since they are designed to do large amounts of damage in short amounts of time and outside of mages with heals (hi Nidalee, hi Soraka) most AP champs have no way of healing up outside of red pots. Bruisers can only trade more effectively because they have ways to mitigate damage and they deal a lot of damage with almost no offensive items. Mages are usually good pushers, pokers o have some sort of utility (and are usually countered by assassins).

Also, LB is gankeable pre 6 just as much as any other champion. As with any champion with a strong laning fase, setting her behind with jungle ganks or playing any safe champion smartly is usually good enough to get you trough laning fase. Specially considreing how large her W cooldown is with only a point in it, a good jungler should be waiting for his/her laner to bait it and then squish LB with her pitiful HP pool. Champs like Nidalee and Ori can max their surviability skill too and farm well out of LB's ideal range while taking barrier (since LB has ignite 100%).

This is not to say that she is crippled without silence. It just is a reasonable nerf for a strong champion in the current meta that does not invalidate her strengths but makes playing her a bit harder.