Talk:Lissandra/@comment-5651085-20130408183711

Disclaimer: I have not played Lissandra yet, and all of my comments are looking at her stats and reading comments and blogs.

Honestly, I don't think she's either really good, or really bad. I'd lean towards her being rather good. Her scalings, while fairly low, aren't terrible. They're actually around average for the majority of AP Carries (Notable exceptions aside). Her slows might be weak, but the fact that there are so many of them balances, if not outweighs them. Often, it doesn't take much of a slow to catch/escape most enemies. I can see her as either a mid or a top lane, or a kill lane support. She has the CC to enable kills, and she has AMAZING mobility with her E.

In terms of her skills, the mana costs are actually not too bad, except her Q, just because it is spammable. They do stick at one cost at all levels for the most part, which is nice. Also, I feel like AUG is just going to be an utterly necessary item on her: CDR (becuase some of them are just annoying), mana, some AP, and its passives work really well; I can see her getting a shit-ton of asissts in teamfights, just from her CC.

The reasons why I don't like her are fewer, but slightly more glaring:

I see her primarily as a niche pick for a high-damage team that needs CC, or a team that revolves around kiting. Also, her armor is a small problem, but an early Seeker's Armguard will help some.

All in all, she won't be an instant fave like Vi, but I feel that she'll be pretty good at what she's built to do.