User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/My second attempt at balancing (hopefully better this time) + skin ideas/@comment-24036535-20140811115428/@comment-24036535-20140811220128

What can Leblanc do? Reliable escape, easy mobility which does not require anything to target, as well as a VERY long dash, decent poke, and very fast burst, along with very high burst. You seem to be emphasising that Leblanc now has weaknesses, and that because other assassins don't share that weakness Leblanc herself is weak, while all the other assassins have their own counterplay.

-Fizz has lower ranged gapclosers and is much easier to lock down because of it, a single knockback or dash from the enemy means he needs to use more of his damage to GET to his target. He also has to land a fairly slow skillshot to effectively assassinate a target, or he can do it close range, which would mean the target is dead anyways.

-Kat is destroyed by any form of hard CC, more so than many champions since about half her kit is her ult, if she fails to channel it, she becomes nearly useless, and should her team fall behind, she becomes totally useless.

-Kass requires a lot of items to be useful, and loses a lot of power against an AD team composition.

-Shaco needs a whole rework, we can agree there.

-Zed is super easy to deal with, 1/3+ of his burst is his ult, a Zhonya's, or QSS, available to any smart assassin target destroy him.

-Talon has no escape, unless he is really far ahead and can use the first part of his ult to finish his target, at which point he should have no issues with needing to escape.

-Ahri is largely skillshot reliant, and missing her charm means her entire combo is ruined, while using her ult to escape limits her overall damage, and usually isn't used last in her combo.

-Akali requires her ult to exist, and a little bit of CC can ruin her day since she NEEDS her mobility to kill a target, unlike other champions.

All champions have their own time to be picked, you seem upset that Leblanc is no longer with Zed as the only useful assassin, that is what makes a healthy game, having times to pick certain champions over others. Leblanc still has plenty of reasons to be picked, but she can be played against now.

And as a final point, Talon's silence is one second, it does nothing expect stop an opponent from panic flashing away or getting lucky. Its pretty useless for all purposes. The only two silences which are lower duration, are Viktor's, and Blitz' both at .5 seconds and both are AoE. AND HIS ESCAPE IS USELESS IN A TEAM FIGHT D:<