PSA: LeBlanc can't 100-0 you with just WQR

iPooUnicorns··11 votes·1,062 views

Contrary to popular belief, she cannot instakill you without following her QR with E or W; unless she's ridiculously fed, which in that case, she's like any champion that is ridiculously fed.

Her Mimic'd Q is entirely backloaded damage, so if she doesn't detonate the Mimic'd Q sigil, she does not do enough damage to 100-0 you.

R Initial Damage: 70 / 140 / 210 (+ 40% AP) R Secondary Damage: 150 / 300 / 450 (+ 75% AP)

So this leaves her to either follow up with her W or E, if she didn't have to use her W to gap close, you were out of position and you deserve to die. If she follows up with her E, you can dodge the skill shot.

LeBlanc is actually a well balanced assassin, her kit offers high single target damage at the cost of utterly atrocious wave clear and general ability to CS. Any smart mid laner will shove the lane and play passively otherwise, not giving her the chance to roam without losing her tower. In team fights, she can easily be locked down before she can kill the back line, and she offers next to no AoE damage. This leaves her with no real late game strengths other than getting picks on out of position targets, similar to virtually every other assassin.

While it's rather unindicative of strength to look to her winrate immediately after her rework/revert, especially considering that she went from 15th to 1st in playrates; her winrate is 40th of 44 mid laners.

12 Comments

webstar11084 votes

All the whiny noobs are down voting this, but good stuff :) Upvoted

Boltonator1 votes

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All the whiny noobs are down voting this, but good stuff :) Upvoted

Maybe the “whinny noobs” aren’t happy about the fact that Leblanc can completely vaporize your health with absolutely no chance to counter (I.E- Zed R can be countered with item 3157

On top of that she can teleport back to where she initially was so you never even have a chance to track her down after the damage has been done.

webstar11086 votes

item 3102

Boltonator4 votes

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item 3102

And once that is on CD she can hide at a distance and do the same thing again, except with you dying.

iPooUnicorns4 votes

So you stay long enough for her to do it again? You are entirely out of position if this happens, either your team should respond or you should back off before she can W again.

Counter her like you counter every other assassin, macro play.

iPooUnicorns4 votes

I was expecting this, they probably only read the title and downvoted.

Thorn Fierce Red1 votes

U need try Diana or Akali

Rins Thigh Socks1 votes

It's definitely possible if she QRW's but that means you walked into the bush she's hiding in and you probably would've died anyway.

Bootleg Gay1 votes

She might not be broken, but her play patterns are still unfair. Flash still won't get you out of her teather range, and many champions would otherwise require flash to get away, and her double targeted Q's hurt way to much for players to not be able to dodge it.

I'm happy they took her waveclear back a couple notches, but she's still a toxic champion that needs a complete VGU. Her win condition shouldn't depend on whether or not she gets countered.

iPooUnicorns1 votes

I agree, especially with her tether break range. I'm not trying to defend how healthy of a champion she is, I don't even play LeBlanc, and I've gotten wrecked by good ones plenty of times; I was just fed up seeing so many blatant mistruths people were posting about how "she can no skill point click WQR instakill you."

webstar11081 votes

Band is a descent counter to LB actually

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