User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Nerf Worthy Champs + Your Thoughts/@comment-11055317-20130703155812/@comment-11055317-20130704163307

She's not getting nerfed, they're fixing her kit with miniscule nerfs/buffs/changes so that she has a chance of being viable but not ridiculously overpowered. The problem with champions like this is that they're almost impossible to balance, the same thing with melee carries.

Leblanc is similar to Nidalee in that she needs open space and seperation between both teams to do her job, what is LB or Nid going to do in a 5v5 situation? They become extremely weak because they are actually required to participate in a teamfight instead of run around the map wqrw'ing single targets or just throwing spears until someone has to blue pill. Unless your ADC is dancing around in the frontline or got caught, LB can't get to them safely, therefore she is useless. No amount of mpen will fix this. I have seen many games where Leblanc got immensely fed then went on to do absolutely nothing because 1: She can't get through meatshields and 2: To get to the point where they are 1-shotting people, Leblanc needs as many kills as humanely possible, therefore fucking up gold distribution and starving her team, Akali has the same problem, except she can take down multiple targets in a short time and needs less kills to snowball. You can use the argument of 'soloq everyone is retarded and no one knows how to do anything', but then in that case every champion is overpowered.

Tell you what, I will quit League of Legends if anyone of good standing genuinely calls Leblanc overpowered in the next few months. She is not played at high elo because she is trash.