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First things first, this is a partial revert of the changes we made to LeBlanc during the Assassin Update. At the time, we had two goals for the update. For assassins as a whole, we wanted to give champions more time to play against assassins. For LeBlanc specifically, we wanted to reinforce her identity as a combo-based assassin who cared about the order in which she cast her spells. In LeBlanc's case, we feel that we've missed the mark on those goals, and we're turning back the clock on some of her changes.



Those two goals can most be exemplified by two abilities: Passive - Sigil of Malice, and R - Mimic. However, neither of these changes have quite hit the mark, so we'll be reverting them, and making some tweaks to the rest of her kit for balance purposes. More on the changes to each ability below.

Passive - Mirror Image

At the moment, no matter how far ahead she is, LeBlanc needs to stick around for around 2 seconds to have a shot at killing a target. It feels pretty awkward having the right thing to do often be holding off on using your abilities (until your passive has cooked).

WHAT IS OLD IS NEW AGAIN When LeBlanc drops below 40% health, she becomes invisible for 1 second and creates a Mirror Image that deals no damage and lasts for up to 8 seconds

BUGFIX Fixed a bug where an attack launched by the clone from Passive - Mirror Image could deal damage if the clone died before that basic attack landed. Funny story, we had this bugfix ready to go when we initially reworked LeBlanc, but there was no need to ship it because that ability no longer existed. So now we're finally shipping it!

Q - Sigil of Malice

NAME Shatter Orb ⇒ Sigil of Malice

NEW SIGIL OF MALICE Applies a mark to the target. Damaging the marked target with an ability detonates the mark to deal additional damage.

ORB BASE DAMAGE 55/90/125/160/195 (unchanged)

ORB DAMAGE RATIO 0.5 ability power ⇒ 0.4 ability power

MARK BASE DAMAGE 55/80/105/130/155

MARK DAMAGE RATIO 0.4 ability power

COST 40/45/50/55/60 mana ⇒ 50/60/70/80/90 mana

W - Distortion

BASE DAMAGE 40/55/70/85/100 ⇒ 85/125/165/205/245

DAMAGE RATIO 0.2 ability power ⇒ 0.6 ability power

COOLDOWN 18/16/14/12/10 seconds ⇒ 14/13/12/11/10 seconds

SPEED 1600 ⇒ 1450

REACTIVATION DELAY 0.85 seconds from initial cast ⇒ 0.2 seconds from finishing dash

E - Ethereal Chains

LATCH-ON BASE DAMAGE 40/60/80/100/120 (unchanged)

LATCH-ON DAMAGE RATIO 0.5 ability power ⇒ 0.3 ability power

ROOT BASE DAMAGE 40/60/80/100/120 ⇒ 60/90/120/150/180

ROOT DAMAGE RATIO 0.5 ability power ⇒ 0.7 ability power

COST 40 mana ⇒ 70 mana

TETHER RANGE 885 ⇒ 865

R - Mimic

LeBlanc's reworked ult was supposed to give her more interesting combos by allowing her to choose which ability to duplicate. In practice, however, it allows her to go all in and still have Mimicked Distortion to get far, far away if mistakes were made.

MIMIC Casts LeBlanc's most recently cast spell upon pressing R

RQ ORB BASE DAMAGE 70/140/210

RQ ORB DAMAGE RATIO 0.4 ability power

RQ MARK BASE DAMAGE 140/280/420

RQ MARK DAMAGE RATIO 0.8 ability power

RW BASE DAMAGE 150/300/450

RW DAMAGE RATIO 0.75 ability power

RE LATCH-ON BASE DAMAGE 70/140/210

RE LATCH-ON DAMAGE RATIO 0.4 ability power

RE ROOT BASE DAMAGE 140/280/420