Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-46.186.54.225-20111102165908/@comment-206.112.75.238-20111108135053

You're all talking about Leblanc as if she is an AP burst mage like Annie, she isn't, she is an assassin. Someone like Brand, Annie, Malzahar, or Veigar are designed to frontload damage at a range, and typically mages have some sort of finicky CC for escapes, but they aren't mobile. Leblanc is a mage assassin like Kassadin, she can hop a wall and burst someone down just to flash right back out again. A normal mage can't because they don't have that built in blink. Also not all characters are designed to scale well into late game. Her burst is always significant, it is how it is delivered and the scenarios for delivery (namely that coordinated team fights require quick thinking and fingers for an effective assassin) that start to hamper her late game.