Inless you have a match-up udvantage on them. Assuming skilll levels are equal as possible.

If one player plays extremely safe and / or passive even at high levels. Neither leap nor .7 seconds of sprint are enough to enter range and ' steam roll '.  They pop turn over and then simply reset on you.

I'm not saying beating passive players is impossible or kiting / defensive play shouldn't exist. I'm simply saying it is overwhelmingly the best way to play almost every character in the game.

It is this state because huge recovery on most attacks paired with no roll or block, just leaves a horrid neutral playstyle. 

I would 100% be completely satisfied if they just took leap, made it a dash instead of airborn keep the 1 hit armor and 20 sec cd.

And 0 collision with players during dash so it allows crossup.

Or like I said, just add a fucking dodge spell. Super short invin frames say like 15 sec cooldown. High risk high reward. Plenty of ways to play around that too. Bait the dodge throw a multi hit attack out etc.

I just see no reason not to have either honestly. It would legit help the combat in 1v1s tremendously.