LeBlanc still Overpowered

7591446644197500·Dec 16, 2015·23 votes·3,151 views

There are still a few champions in this league that once they get ahead are near-impossible to stop. Le Blanc being the main one that pops into mind, With her easy-mode targeted spells and limited cast delay, LB is able to burst most champs down from full to dead in under 3 seconds, snaring her target all whilst being able to safely retreat with a simply hit of a button. I just find it ridiculous, that at level 6, she is able to burst you from a screen length away, snare you and before you can even react she has teleported back without you being able to even react. So OP that you have no choice but to defend against it, especially when playing a champ that is "designed" for damage. Riot nerf all burst dmg champions (fiora,annie talon)but.Why do Riot not nerf Leblanc, Zed? NEEDS THE NERF

42 Comments

Nanuk PihoqahiakDec 16, 201512 votes

My only problem with her is that the chain range on her E is VERY inconsistent. Sometimes it breaks immediately upon getting out of range. Other times you stay tethered past twice its range. It's ridiculous when the latter happens because she can immediately turn it into a play.

TankkmainDec 16, 20157 votes

She HAS been nerfed. Many times over. If you think this LeBlanc is bad, remember when she had a silence?

Remlap1223Dec 16, 20153 votes

And I'd still rather listen to Nickleback on repeat for thirty minutes than play in a game with a decent LeBlanc (not a main, just decent is enough).

RalanrDec 16, 20154 votes

Seriously, what is wrong with Nickelback?

SmitemuffinDec 16, 20151 votes

LeBlanc was more balanced back then because her farming sucked enough that it was worth it to sacrifice some CS to play safely and deny her kills. She actually had to make plays in order to snowball. Ever since then, she can just waveclear with W and go kill someone else

MunchCrunchLunchDec 16, 20151 votes

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She HAS been nerfed. Many times over. If you think this LeBlanc is bad, remember when she had a silence?

lol. didn't they just buff her??

Mr Broken WingsDec 16, 20156 votes

Fun fact, she wasnt even overbearing in soloque in her strongest moments. Madcuzbadthread.

Remlap1223Dec 16, 20151 votes

So explain why she was the most banned champ for a while?

Regardless, even if she did suck (which she didn't, mad cuz you're wrong) she's still insanely toxic to play against.

It Is I EmotoDec 16, 20151 votes

Her Silence prolly. People barley played her before, and didn't know how to deal with her either. In the hands of a LB main she could've been one of the worst nightmares in solo Q, Like Kassa used to be before his silence removal. The Silence removal was really needed, I used to main her, and man she used to be one of the most toxic champs before the removal.

Chuck CharlesDec 16, 20156 votes

I think you just mis understand how to play against Leblanc and what her main weakness is. She is not only squishy like other mids. but is insanely squishy. I mean she is up there with Soraka and Lux in being able to explode. Her poke combo is pretty much near impossible to avoid, but the snare is something you can and should be dodging. if she dashes you should be moving in a rather unpredictable pattern and preparing to dodge the E.

After her combo has been used, especially early her cooldowns are damn long so you can trade back with her here, or even right after her combo ends. I shit on Leblanc's with Lux all the time, simply knowing the damage is unavoidable and more playing around the fact I'm going to take a ton of damage. If you build defensively early, have a defensive rune set up and land your abilities after she uses her(she wont have a way to dodge easily then), you can actually be even in trades early or at least close enough to it to where she has to think twice about distortion into you.

Leblanc Q R is pretty cheesy and its a free detonate on the Q and that is where she is oppressive. You can just dash in, Q R try to land the first part of E and blink back. not much enemy can do.

Leblanc is not a problem child on the level of Akali, Talon, Katarina, or even Diana who's kits basically are indicative of "I either blow you up or I don't"

Remlap1223Dec 16, 20153 votes

I think you just mis understand how to play against Leblanc and what her main weakness is.

OOH! OOH! I KNOW!

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As a Leblanc main, I want to state that flashing her combo is really easy.

But dodging it, ohohohoho, no.

lol

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Oh good, counterplay every five minutes, she's balanced guys.

SmitemuffinDec 16, 20151 votes

The only reason you shit on LeBlanc with Lux (I do it too) is because nobody, and I mean nobody dodges Lucent Singularity and LB players are lazy. Most of them know they're playing an easy I-Win-Button champ, so they Q+Distortion straight at you every time like they don't know it makes your snare easy to land.

But really, if LeBlanc players pulled their heads out of their butts and Distortion next to Lux instead of straight infront of her, Lux would be easy kills.

LegacyDAPDec 16, 20153 votes

I mean, that's kind of her niche. An assassin that can burst you from 100-0 and get back safely. For the record that's most assassin's who have single target burst, and practically no CC.

Hayaishi2Dec 16, 20153 votes

And she's getting buffed.

Edyr420Dec 16, 20152 votes

maybe riot has some hidden contracts with some gaming equipment producer. and their plans are to make people so angry with champs like LB that they destroy their stuff to buy new stuff. or maybe im too high.

xxxMadLionxxxDec 16, 20153 votes

What about Ahri ......she has everthing in her kit. Poke, mobility, hard cc, heal and both AOE sustain and burst damage.

Edyr420Dec 16, 20151 votes

she is god tier mid since half a year... but w/e people are like unpopular =/= op

ExileSorrowDec 16, 20151 votes

As ahri main she has bad range for poking and the burst of a utility control mage her sustain since last nerf is neglectable till lvl 11

DogIsGodDec 16, 20152 votes

http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/leblanc/platinum Totally OP. As an assassin main, I can tell you straight up she's one of the weakest.

Michael SykesDec 16, 20152 votes

Do you need a guide how to lane vs LeBlanc? I am sure I can help you. I play her and I played vs her and in both cases I rarely lost my lane. You just need good picks and a knowledge of her kit. And then it is too easy to play against her.

Greetings!

UnlimitedNinja41Dec 16, 20152 votes

Teach me your ways...

Michael SykesDec 16, 20151 votes

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Teach me your ways...

Well, in the most cases I played Lux and won the lane (and the game). Otherwise I won nearly every game vs Lux as LeBlanc - I think it is just the knowledge and the skill I have of/with both champs. Which are your mains? Maybe I can give you tips :)

UnlimitedNinja41Dec 16, 20152 votes

I main Yasuo and Zed (Don't hate me) and I play ekko occasionally. When I'm Yas, I try to wind wall her q as fast as my reaction time would let me and sometimes it works and other times it doesn't and I get chunked. but when I do manage to block it I go in on her and I manage to outtrade her.

Michael SykesDec 16, 20151 votes

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I main Yasuo and Zed (Don't hate me) and I play ekko occasionally. When I'm Yas, I try to wind wall her q as fast as my reaction time would let me and sometimes it works and other times it doesn't and I get chunked. but when I do manage to block it I go in on her and I manage to outtrade her.

Well ok, Yasuo is an annoying matchup for LeBlanc because you have to aa everytime his shield is up. I hope you are not one of those Yasuos that do a panic wall. I use that and launch my combo after I baited it. But Yasuo is stronger than her in the lategame, especially when you have a good team comp. Just do that what you already did and go back when you are below 1/3 of your life and have no shield because she can flash-q-w-ignite-aa you and has a safe kill.

As Zed you have to stay out of your range and farm until 6 with q and w+e and poke her with w+q. She can't do anything. When she tries to w on you, use ur teleport to change position and land a combo and aa's on her when she returns to her pad. After 6 it is pretty hard to escape from zed's damage, a Leblanc has to dash or do her combo faster than zed to win. In this case it is a skill matchup and can be a very awesome experience for both players.

Ekko seems to be pretty weak against her although he can avoid the damage with his ult and has a lot of outplay potential. When you play vs a skilled LeBlanc, you have no chance because she is able to manage her dashs/blinks efficiently to outplay YOUR outplay. But you can try (obviously) to poke/farm with your q and use ur w shield to survive her burst or even better, on her return pad. Also you can use your blink when she w's to you and you get the best moment. Once her dashes are on cooldown, she only has her e to escape.

Sadly we are not on the same servers so I can't play 1v1s with you, I already explained a few friends how to lane vs her. And don't think someone could hate you because you play Yasuo. He is strong, especially because of his keystone-mastery, but extremely immobile when no minions are nearby. Maybe he is just too easy to learn. Some say it is similar with LeBlanc, but until you are really good, you need to have played 125+ games (I am on 200 games with her now on a little les than 60% winrate)

UnlimitedNinja41Dec 16, 20152 votes

There are times where I get a little jumpy that I do windwall way too early and I just back off until it is up again. I experienced what your saying with Zed when I was playing him and lb w'ed me at level 1 and i lost a quarter of my health.

Michael SykesDec 17, 20151 votes

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There are times where I get a little jumpy that I do windwall way too early and I just back off until it is up again. I experienced what your saying with Zed when I was playing him and lb w'ed me at level 1 and i lost a quarter of my health.

Then you see your mistake with Yasuo, it is just a mindgame. I think there is a chance where you can outrade her in this moment (if she dashes, engage with e and do some aa's and q, then go back before she has q+e again)

and don't be surprised, with runes lb is able to do 110 damage at lvl1 w

If you have any more question, I hope that I can give you more answers!

Edyr420Dec 16, 20151 votes

pssst, let the people think that yasuo is broken and no one else.

FjiordorDec 16, 20151 votes

Fizz has everything ledumb has in his wq combo (i dealt 1,8 k with it yesterday) http://matchhistory.euw.leagueoflegends.com/de/#match-details/EUW1/2431891700/42172099?tab=overview

BeldairDec 16, 20151 votes

When i did Renekton support, we had a Yas who was losing his lane against an LB mid. I came in with my dash in, stun, dash forward to block her escape. It allowed our Yas mid to kill their LB.

Dirty RoleplayerDec 16, 20151 votes

But but but she has mana!

VaporeonKunDec 16, 20151 votes

Every assassins turning point is lv 6.

LeBlanc has decent damage early on, but her wave clear is very bad (unless she wants to waste her mobility for a full clear). Champs like Malz and Lux push her out of farm easily and have ways of dealing with her a lot faster. I play LB a load, not enough to call myself amazing, but enough that her biggest weaknesses are being pushed out of lane and targets that don't die easily.

She also can't carry very well, since everything burst in her kit is better for single target deletion. She thrives on deleting targets one by one. That's where she can destroy a team. Other than that, an organized team will keep her in her place at all stages.

SmitemuffinDec 16, 20151 votes

Truth. Her biggest problem is that there's no respite from her oppressive laning if you aren't playing a counterpick. She can half-health you at level 2, even if you took MR glyphs. She can all-in at level 6 every 30 seconds. Honestly her E isn't even really important, as most good LeBlanc players rarely even need it. You should have the enemy laner below half as soon as you hit 2.

MunchCrunchLunchDec 16, 20151 votes

yeah she is. the other day an lb got fed. not too much. just a cpl kills. she literally 100-zeroed two of us. instantly. under the turret. no chance. shes broken.

Pasta Help DeskDec 16, 20151 votes

Annie has no problems dealing with LB. I'm also willing to bet you have horrid reaction times.

UnlimitedNinja41Dec 16, 20151 votes

Love it when LB chunks a quarter of my health with just a level 1 w

CasterGilgameshDec 16, 20151 votes

No she isn't she can easily be stomped also she can't solo carry a game easily.she is only God for one thing and that's killing the adc.we don't need assassins to be Nerfed especially now that adc's are stronger.

JARmatesDec 16, 20151 votes

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No she isn't she can easily be stomped also she can't solo carry a game easily.she is only God for one thing and that's killing the adc.we don't need assassins to be Nerfed especially now that adc's are stronger.

Can't wait for OP misery! BTW do you have link to Leblanc buff?

CasterGilgameshDec 16, 20151 votes

its somewhere in surrender at 20 it the buff got reduced in this patch of it http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/12/1215-pbe-update.html#more

JARmatesDec 16, 20151 votes

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its somewhere in surrender at 20 it the buff got reduced in this patch of it http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/12/1215-pbe-update.html#more

I love you man!

N3mO06Dec 16, 20151 votes

Yes, they are buffing her.....enjoy

BaunjoDec 16, 20151 votes

She is puts herself in very poor positions to actually deal all of her damage, do not just downvote without thinking that you W legit has to be cast on top of someone to hit them.

Also, of course she is almost near impossible to stop when ahead. Every champion is that way if someone is good enough with them. The trick is to keep her from getting ahead, she is almost useless when behind

JARmatesDec 16, 20151 votes

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There are still a few champions in this league that once they get ahead are near-impossible to stop. Le Blanc being the main one that pops into mind, With her easy-mode targeted spells and limited cast delay, LB is able to burst most champs down from full to dead in under 3 seconds, snaring her target all whilst being able to safely retreat with a simply hit of a button. I just find it ridiculous, that at level 6, she is able to burst you from a screen length away, snare you and before you can even react she has teleported back without you being able to even react. So OP that you have no choice but to defend against it, especially when playing a champ that is "designed" for damage. Riot nerf all burst dmg champions (fiora,annie talon)but.Why do Riot not nerf Leblanc, Zed? NEEDS THE NERF

What OP mean is that she need her silence back. OP is very confuse right now.