Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-67.169.161.32-20110422201517/@comment-3165723-20110423041041

you can preach all you want but the fact is that in early game she puts out far too much damage to counter effectively. sure heals are nice, but no heal in the game is comparable to her burst damage. staying out of her range isnt easy considering her spells have pretty decent range on their own, and when you consider her Distortion increases said range by even more means she can cover most of mid lane. Most mids (as seen in your list) are champions that depend on casting spells for their damage, and with her silence retaliation isnt easy. Having a kassadin double teleport at low levels and being able to put out as much damage as he does LATE GAME is ridiculous. the only thing that makes her marginally balanced is the fact that her gameplay is very intricate and complicated. She trades minion farming for champion farming in early game. There is no heal in the game that can compensate for her damage, unless of course to level the heal first. In which case, you may be able to manage. but the unstoppable Zoning that a LeBlanc is able to do cuts off all minion farming for pretty much anyone. I find it difficult to say definitely that LB is op, only because she's so rare. But in my experience, her damage output is complete bull. You give a bunch of nonsense and useless information as advice (like juking her chains, which is almost impossible at close range if LB is even half competent). I'm not going to say she's uncounterable, but i haven't seen anyone do it effectively. i've always seen the opposite. Any LB i've ever seen can zone anyone, and i mean anyone, in mid.