Talk:LeBlanc/@comment-26808509-20170317233224

After playing her a few times now I gotta say the nerf isn't as huge as it seemed to be in the first place. Sure, she misses a lot of damage in her combo now, but even without hitting her W at all she has enough damage left to kill squishies in late game. This nerf only really affects her in the early stages of the game and in laningphase, because that's the only time you really use her W for damage. That they nerfed her early is fine, it was way too strong if you knew only a little bit about what you were doing.

Also LeBlanc's W allways was the part of her kit that made her this hard to balance. Leveling gave her damage, mobility and waveclear, everything she needed. A lot of power was put into it but different to other champs with strong signature spells, the rest of her kit wasn't weak. Now they reduced her W to her mobility and juking tool and that's completly fine, because she now can decide wether she want's more waveclear with maxing Q first (helps shoving in the enemy and gives her room to roam) or more single target damage with E (if she is able to snowball off of her own lane). Heck, even maxing W first is still viable if one has a tough match up and simply wants to survive the early game. One shouldn't expect the greatest damage with this skill order however. And again, that's completly fine.

I think people will learn to play around her weakened W soon. Until now LeBlanc was an early burst monster, with a high skill cap of course, but because of her brute strength in early, being skilled wasn't THAT necessary. This now is gone, but if one puts some effort into learing her, she is still damn strong.