League of Legends' next champion has been revealed! Lissandra, The Ice Witch, is designed to be an incredibly mana-efficient mage that focuses on applying tons of crowd control while being able to kite very well with her mobility.
We don't now any of her base stats or any of the numbers on her skills at the moment. So try not to decide whether she's OP or UP right now. So all I can do right now is discuss her skills based on their descriptions.
Lissandra's passive is Iceborn. After a brief cooldown, Lissandra's next ability costs no mana. Hitting an enemy with movement impairing abilities reduces Iceborn's cooldown. This seems to be what allows Lissandra to be mana-efficient. This passive seems to be very useful but it will depend on the length of the cooldown and the mana costs of the rest of her abilities. Careful management with this passive would allow you to stay in lane for a long time.
Lissandra's Q is Ice Shard. Lissandra throws a spear of ice that shatters on contact with the first enemy struck, dealing damage and slowing their movement speed for a short duration. Enemies behind the struck target also take damage. This skills seems to be her main source of damage and her main farming ability. According to the description, only the first person hit gets slowed, so this could help if you get ganked, but won't do much in a teamfight in terms of CC. The cooldown and strength of the slow may change my mind.
Lissandra's W is Ring of Frost. Lissandra freezes the area around her, dealing damage to nearby enemies and rooting them for a short duration. This seems to be Lissandra's "Get the hell away from me" skill. This makes it pretty hard to gank Lissandra unless you are a ranged champion, but which good junglers are ranged?
Her E is Glacial Path. Lissandra casts a slow-moving, long-range ice claw in a line, dealing damage to all enemies in its path. Re-activating Glacial Path teleports Lissandra to the claw's current location. This seems to be Lissandra's main mobility skill. The skill's teleport function pretty much makes Lissandra impossible to gank. For poking, her Q might be a better choice since the term "slow-moving" implies that this skill is easy to dodge.
Her ultimate is Frozen Tomb.
On enemy cast: Lissandra freezes an enemy champion, damaging and stunning them briefly. Dark Ice emanates from the target, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies.
On self-cast: Lissandra encases herself in ice, rooting herself in place briefly and becoming untargetable and invulnerable. Dark Ice emanates from Lissandra, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies.
This skill can pretty much shutdown the enemy AD carry. Not only does this skill stun, but enemies around the target are slowed and take damage. This skill can be used to takedown the enemy Carry quickly, or disable the tank so your team can have an easier time focusing the weaker champions.
When casted on herself, Lissandra pretty much gets a free Zhonya's Hourglass that does AOE damage. This punished any one who manages to get close to her, and if they're still close to her after the effect ends, she can use her W and walk away :P
Overall, I really like the design of this champion. Being able to apply tons of CC from a safe distance sounds like fun and I can't wait to try her out ^-^
There isn't really much else to say about her, so I'll end of this post with her lore.
Lissandra’s magic twists the pure power of ice into something dark and terrible. With the force of her black ice, she does more than freeze – she impales and crushes those who oppose her. To the terrified denizens of the north, she is known only as “The Ice Witch.” The truth is much more sinister: Lissandra is a corruptor of nature who plots to unleash an ice age on the world.
Centuries ago, Lissandra betrayed her tribe to evil creatures, known as the Frozen Watchers, in return for power. That was the last day that warm blood ran through her veins. With her corrupted tribesmen and the strength of the Watchers, she swept across the land like a terrible blizzard. As her empire spread, the world grew colder and ice choked the land. When the Watchers were defeated by ancient heroes, Lissandra did not lose faith and swore to prepare the world for their return.
Lissandra worked to purge all knowledge of the Watchers from the world. Using magic to take human form, she masqueraded as numerous seers and elders. Over the course of generations, she rewrote the stories of the Freljord, and so the history of its people changed. Today the fragmented retellings of the Watchers are seen as children’s tales. But this deception wasn’t enough – Lissandra also needed an army.
She set her sights on the noble Frostguard tribe. Lissandra knew corrupting the Frostguard would take centuries, and so she launched her greatest deception. She murdered and stole the identity of the Frostguard leader. Then she slowly began to warp the tribe’s proud traditions. When her human form grew old, she faked her own death and then murdered her successor to steal her identity. With each generation, the Frostguard grew more insular, cruel and twisted. Today, the world still sees them as a noble and peaceful tribe that guards against evil creatures like the Ice Witch. In truth, they now serve the witch and long for the glorious return of the Watchers.
Lissandra knows that on that day nations will fall and the world will be reborn in ice.
“Close your eyes and let the cold take you.” - Lissandra
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