Talk:Lissandra/@comment-33536623-20140331091123/@comment-8506165-20140512174006

Her CC is very much overrated. You want a mage with CC? Let's see... can bind someone for 2s and probably delete them in that time. can lock someone down for 4.5s. Hell, and  have 2s stuns, and  has a 2.5s AOE stun. Hell, if we're talking single-target lockdown potential for ultimates, has a 2.5s suppression.

Lissandra has a single-target slow (and not even a particularly good one, at that), a PBAOE root and a single-target stun/AOE slow. Her total lockdown potential on a single target (assuming a perfectly timed combo on a zero tenacity target) is 3s, but that's tied to her ultimate. Without it she has a pitiful slow and a root that requires you to be virtually on top of the enemy, as an incredibly squishy mage. Your only survivability tool requires you to give up half your moveblock.

Really, I like Lissandra's kit, and I wish she were better! But sadly, she's not - I can't justify picking her at all. The glass cannon DFG build essentially makes her a much worse - she blows up a single target if she has DFG up, then usually dies - and tankier builds leave her damage lacking by far too much to be an exceptionally competitive pick compared to the likes of, given how undercooked Lissandra's CC actually is.