Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-31044841-20170308081643/@comment-31203455-20170309092530

Have you considered that the large nerf was needed?

I will keep pointing out that Leblanc is meant to be Mistress of Misdirection, but when you have W at high power levels then that whole theme goes out the window.

You end up being another Diana or Akali; you just blunder in and whack the target. No detail. No intricate champion playstyle. Leblanc is then just a thing. A tool. We might as well not give champions name, or back stories or interesting character models.

But we do have interesting champions, because they are different. I have no way of prying into the minds of Riot's balance team (although PETA would probably object to my cutting open the heads of a bunch of monkeys), but I will suggest that the nerf to Leblanc's W is so that she doesn't just dive onto the champion to maul them.

She did get a buff to her Q (right?) so really her damage is being nerfed but also being rerouted so that her assassin playstyle isn't so generic.