How to counter Leblanc?

Glîtchy··5 votes·604 views

I'd rather not be forced to play a bullshit champ like Zed before you recommend him, I mean I was tank Akali with 200 MR and yet the opponents Leblanc with 222 AP just burst me down with only like 2 hits, seriously, how do we counter this stupid bitch?

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archerno14 votes

If u mean how to counter her on lane, just pick anything with good waveclear. Morgana, Viktor, Lulu... And push. Push like crazy. She will be forced to use abilities under turret to get some farm. She wont be able to trade with u. Rush Abyssal. If she tries to roam, ping like maniac and push, punish her for leaving lane. She will fall behidn and be useless.

DeathBurst3 votes

This isn't possible. One of your number must be wrong.

Targon3 votes

When I played Leblanc, I always found Morgana extremely annoying to fight against. Getting rooted as a Leblanc with the enemy jungler near by is a death sentence for her. Not to mention, her black shield is great against Leblanc. Buying an early negatron cloak will also make it harder for her to kill you. You might have a hard time killing her in return, but an under-fed Leblanc is pretty useless when team fights come around, and if she tries to roam for kills you can take her tower.

Fondling Gems2 votes

Galio. Seriously though, to try and kill you she has to W. You ult as she is flying in. Jgler ganks. Easy kill. Plus she can't burst him with his W up.

Also if you are getting burst with 200 mr try getting some health. Health is a bad stat by itself and so are resistances. Together they are strong. Something like abyssal + spirit visage. If you want more mr then veil too.

spombjop1 votes

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Galio. Seriously though, to try and kill you she has to W. You ult as she is flying in. Jgler ganks. Easy kill. Plus she can't burst him with his W up.

Also if you are getting burst with 200 mr try getting some health. Health is a bad stat by itself and so are resistances. Together they are strong. Something like abyssal + spirit visage. If you want more mr then veil too.

swain is way stronger than galio

daemanic2 votes

ROFL ok ill keep my lvl 5 mastery on galio and you keep swain cant wait til i see you in a fight i will win

Fondling Gems1 votes

Yes, swain is a stronger champ, but galio is much much harder for a lb to burst and he can easily lock down lb, unlike swain.

Alutrosity1 votes

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Yes, swain is a stronger champ, but galio is much much harder for a lb to burst and he can easily lock down lb, unlike swain.

As Swain, I drop my w on her return spot, forcing her to stay if she's fast enough to react to it, or she gets locked down and fucked on because she thought she could pull that flashy shit on me. I use the same tactic for when Zed tries to ult ontop of me, especially when doing it under turret, just drop the root where you know they'll be and watch them squeal.

Fondling Gems1 votes

Yes but that is only about 1 second of "cc" she can also w/r in a different direction to escape.

Galio ult (while on a longer cd) is much more guaranteed and longer lasting.

not saying which is better overall, just saying a Galio is harder to burst than Swain and has more guaranteed cc.

Pupel2 votes

You need a ping of lower than 50 to outplay her

jusho11 votes

just push the lane hard and move a lot so she cant combo you

Flaherty2 votes

If you're talking about your recent game then there are some reasons to that, you had less than 140 magic resist, scaling runes, and no tank masteries so that's hardly being a "tank". That is how you can survive against LB though, by being tanky, you just need to actually be a tank. She also had 5 kills, 5 assists, and was 2 levels higher than you so you're not going to be able to fight her regardless. As other people say you have to outplay her and burst her down before she can burst you down or be a legit tank which means having the right runes and masteries and items.

Glîtchy1 votes

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If you're talking about your recent game then there are some reasons to that, you had less than 140 magic resist, scaling runes, and no tank masteries so that's hardly being a "tank". That is how you can survive against LB though, by being tanky, you just need to actually be a tank. She also had 5 kills, 5 assists, and was 2 levels higher than you so you're not going to be able to fight her regardless. As other people say you have to outplay her and burst her down before she can burst you down or be a legit tank which means having the right runes and masteries and items.

I had full tank runes on

Frankey882 votes

kill her

Glîtchy1 votes

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kill her

Well I'll be damned, I never thought of this. yeah it's fun trying to burst someone down who becomes two bitches in one.

Frankey881 votes

most leblanc players don't capitalize on her invisibility time meaning shes easy to follow

Glîtchy1 votes

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most leblanc players don't capitalize on her invisibility time meaning shes easy to follow

Yeah, makes sense, follow a bitch who vanishes faster than the thanksgiving turkey thanks to that one obese relative.

Frankey881 votes

What I'm saying is they will try to run and not control their clone, since they don't control it you can find the real leblanc easily and kill her

MunchCrunchLunch2 votes

being tankier than an assassin makes you counter pretty much any assassin in the game. i wouldn't call it countering.

Glîtchy1 votes

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being tankier than an assassin makes you counter pretty much any assassin in the game. i wouldn't call it countering.

Most MR items are shit right now, hell, you could go full MR Nautilus and AP Assassin's will still laugh at you.

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

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Most MR items are shit right now, hell, you could go full MR Nautilus and AP Assassin's will still laugh at you.

yeah lb is the kind of champion little bit of mr doesn't work against. a full banshee veil and she can still one shot you. I would get still an mr item so she has to use a full rotation to kill me like a maw or an abyssal scepter but i would grab some health too. also i found champs with a stun good agaisnt her. lb likes to w to you even under turret. i played lux vs lb sometimes ad i just q her mid her dash and she takes so much turret agro

Glîtchy1 votes

Yeah here's the problem, I don't play Lux, I find her kit too boring, just snare, ult, snare, ult, then really when that fails you just smash your face on the keyboard.

Shrek Luigi2 votes

If you're a mage and you get counterpicked with Leb, I find the single most useful thing to do as far as consistently improving your odds goes is taking barrier and rushing RoA. It's very difficult for LB to kill anything outside the amount of damage her skill-rotation does, and the extra beef goes a long way toward preventing her from getting kills and snowballing.

Opting for mercury treads over mpen/cdr boots is another alternative that works very well in conjunction with an early RoA.

Leb is strong but suffers the same setbacks as most assassins---can't assassinate people in teamfights without a massive gold-advantage. Many mages will outscale her and be more relevant as the game progresses simply by farming well and playing safe.

spombjop1 votes

burst her down before she burst u if you're akali get item 3157 in case u get caught, i never had any trouble as akali vs leblanc. laning phase is preety hard (i don't play akali mid but played few times vs lb) but after level 6 lane is very easy

it's like any assassins matchup, who does his combo first he wins

FioraWillCarry1 votes

How to counter Leblanc?

You don't. You ban or dodge.

Seriously. MR might help.

Glîtchy1 votes

I was building MR, what, you think I'd go Attack speed Akali?

Crossette1 votes

90% of the people in here say to 1v2 her with your jungler lmao.

Ban her. :^)

PentaJuke1 votes

I find that hard to believe.

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