Talk:Lissandra/@comment-6000082-20130404123535/@comment-3403804-20130404165400

Lissandra looks underwhelming at first, I agree, her abilities as a burst champion are little to write home about, luckily however, she's not a burst mage, unlike most other mages. Rather  she's seems to be an Assassin. While most assassins are capable of killing their target extremely quickly, Lissandra's abilities are centered on preventing others from coming to their rescue. Lissandra's abilities are still powerful, and their low mana cost coupled with her passive makes her extremely sustainable in both team fights and in lanes. Like the guy above me stated, she'd also be extremely hard to gank, and with such a massive array of movement-impairing abilities, she would in most cases turn a gank around to a one-sided victory in her favor, even if she's attacked from more than a single front - in that regard, she's quite like Cassiopeia.

If she decides to gank other lanes though? She'd be a nightmare, she can teleport larger distances than pretty much any other champion I've seen, the range of her E exceeds even Kassadin's Rift Walk. Her spells can be activated nigh-on instantenously, which would give a poor carry or enemy mage no time to act before they're locked down - at which point she could unleash her full combo for massive damage. Sure, her cooldowns are nasty, but she probably won't have any problems with mana, ever. All things considered, as an Assassin, she's the opposite of LeBlanc and would probably be capable of taking care of both LeBlanc and Kassadin in a match-up, due to their suspectibility to hard-cc, which she has in spades.