Talk:Lissandra/@comment-29520068-20161202050136/@comment-26808509-20161212074749

With the amount of CC she has, she really shouldn't be able to oneshot squishys unless she is far ahead. I agree however, that she isn't in a good spot right now. She allways had to play risky because she has to get up close to the enemy and now are CC tanks really popular, making it almost impossible for her to go in unpunished. The days of high damage carries, which she can lock down with her ult to win the game, are over, because tanks and bruisers are really strong right now and only need carries to deal damage to objectives, not in fights. Ulting one of those often doesn't have a noticable effect, because Lissandra has no tools to shred tanks and Tenacity reduces her CC. And if Lissandra has no priority target to lock down, she has to engage the fight, but that's something she's getting outclassed by, guess what, most tanks.

Lissandra was nerfed multiple times in the past, but she allways remained solid, but now she is like really weak, because the meta shifted out of her favor. More damage isn't needed, I think, she isn't supposed to oneshot someone, because it wouldn't be fair, combined with her CC. I think Riot should just strenghten her in her real purpose: The low ranged enaging mage, with lock down abilites. And a good start for this would be a change to that boring and mostly useless passive, which is only a weak excuse for her abyssemal mana costs. It doesn't fit her playstyle, it doesn't support her in what she does and it offers almost no interesting mechanics. The only reason it kind of works, is that she has mana, but it would work for everyone who does. So it's nothing unique that givey you the feeling that it was made fot that champ. Maybe give her some other interaction with her CC, maybe something that supports her engage or at least something that helps her dealing with tanks, because most of the time she has to deal with them (her engage is highlighted, predictable and slow, so the tanks will almost allways run up into your face).