If Riot deleted Xin from the game, I wouldn't give a fraction of a figment of a fleeting fuck.
In fact, I would probably masturbate.
Played some enlightening games with Aquila and friends, reached the realization that Leblanc is totally toxic. Huge damage + Huge Mobility + Doesn't have to commit to engages = Totally toxic. Reading online the naysayers argue that she can be counter played by not letting her kill you, since she "Falls off like a sack of rocks *Gross exaggeration* late game, if she doesn't get kills." Which seems like a bit of a flawed argument to me. First of all, not letting her kill you in lane, let alone kill your teammates is no simple matter to begin with. Secondly, it seems to be the general consensus that even with just a couple kills early game and decent farm that she has extremely high snowball potential, meaning that that's a counter play with very little margin for error. Tertiary, don't you think any champion that is that powerful early game should lack power late game if they have no kills in the first place?
The other argument I hear, is that now that she doesn't have silence anymore high burst damage dealers can get rid of her. But, that also seems flawed. Leblanc can easily delete squishy champions herself, she's near impossible to match in terms of burst. Especially when she gets out of hand. Even if your team has CC and initiation, she doesn't have to dedicate to engagements because of her free escapes. More often than not she chills out in the back row before diving in on squishies, basically disregarding your bulky champions. When exactly is it that you get a chance to burst her without her retaliating or doing some form of harm? It turns into a wild west quick draw scenario, except you only get to draw when her gun is already in her hand. She often gets to pick her spots, pops you once and then simply walks away.
Leblanc gets the initiative automatically.
In a game with aquila the Leblanc got so out of hand, it started with only a few kills. But that's all she needed. Quickly she could insta kill me and our top lane when we were at 75% life. Then 100%. She got so powerful she could 0-100% our tank Rek'Sai who had Spectre's cowl, Randuin's omen and Mercury treads. Literally, and I do mean literally deleting over 2k HP. I'm not exaggerating, I mean full life bar to no life bar as fast as you can blink. And she had a Randuin's Omen of her own, she could've built more damage if she wanted to.
If someone could explain to me how this champion isn't toxic, I would love to learn.
And for your information, I did just post this to bitch.
Not many people remember that against "extreme dashy bashy mid carries" it's better to get an anti-carry champion instead of a mage or assassin
Example
I remember when I was mid lane with the opponent going LeBlanc (she was even skinned) and me going Lissandra
I basically shat on her
Whenever she tried to jump on me, I simply had to W her to stop her "jukes"
When she tried to farm, I poked her out of the lane
When she tried to push the lane hard trying to roam, I waited for my jungler and pratically locked her down with R + W (and a good amount of Q)
When she tried to get kills in teamfights, R + W + Team going 'Murica on her
Same thing happens with other popular carries: Zed, Ahri, Akali; if they get Liss in lane, they're gonna have a lot of damn hard time
But it's not like Liss is the new god: she gets countered by long range mages (the range of her spells is quite short)
What I want to say is that, in the case you get in a lane with someone who carries hard and snowballs tremendously, anti-carry champions are a good possibility
For those who might misunderstand me, for anti-carry I don't mean (as usually other people do) assassins, but champions who can hinder both the growth and the job of carries (assassin's too, since they are somewhat of a carry (examples: akali, kassadin, yi, ecc.))
Anti-carry are champs like Vi, Jarvan, Morde, Urgot, ecc.
