LB -- What fucking counter is there?

Niyumi··3 votes·1,278 views

"DURRRR, I CAN CLICK ON YOU AND INSTANTLY KILL YOU!" -- LB.

How do you beat targeted fucking abilities that instantly do 80% of your health? How do you catch someone who has potentially three long-range dashes and several blinks? How do you kill someone who goes invuln and splits in two whenever she fucks up? How do you beat the bullshit that is LB?

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Sincarnation4 votes

Ekko Ahri Diana Lissandra Zed Fizz Vladimir

All of these do pretty well vs her, 5 are dive assassins and the other two are poke mages. One with hard cc to lock her down and the other with sustain for days and a way to dodge her abilities

Niyumi2 votes

LB would delete Ahri since the charm nerf, delete Diana, delete Liss unless she has Korean-tier reaction time, and delete Vlad until he stacks health -- and even then, she'd be so stupidly strong at that point that her Q>R>W>E would likely just delete him.

Fizz and Ekko have a chance at surviving her all-in, but they'd be so low that they're forced to back, or die when her absurd fucking Q is off cooldown.

Don't play Zed, so I have no idea.

ModWulf Helhammer6 votes

Your problem is you instantly see playing against the champion as a loss. Stop doing that, and it becomes a lot easier to beat them (I can pretty easily wreck a LeBlanc with my Xerath)

Niyumi2 votes

My VERY FIRST GAME with LB, I went 19/0. Had absolutely no idea what I was doing, building or anything -- yet I still won, EASILY. After that I played her against friends in customs, and still won. Short of going nowhere fucking near her, or spamming an entire team's worth of CC on her, there is no way to counterplay her bullshit fucking kit.

So, yeah, sorry if I don't see a way to counterplay targeted, unmissable attacks that instantly do >50% of your health.

Hella Kaiser1 votes

the last lb i saw was 0/6/1... and i was 9/0/5 with brand... so... yeah... how to beat lb? long range poke/hard burst

Sincarnation3 votes

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LB would delete Ahri since the charm nerf, delete Diana, delete Liss unless she has Korean-tier reaction time, and delete Vlad until he stacks health -- and even then, she'd be so stupidly strong at that point that her Q>R>W>E would likely just delete him.

Fizz and Ekko have a chance at surviving her all-in, but they'd be so low that they're forced to back, or die when her absurd fucking Q is off cooldown.

Don't play Zed, so I have no idea.

What stage of the game are you talking about? Mid-Late when she has 4-5 items or laning?

In lane as Ahri LB can't W you without you dodging with Q movespeed or stopping it with a charm, She can't land her E or W if you are any good with Ahri ult. LB doesn't Max Q in lane otherwise she has zero waveclear, in such case AFK shove lane and roam/take jungle camp. Plus you can heal up most harass with your dumb passive.

Diana is the fucking tank of assassins, Diana rushes Abyssal/RoA and there isnt shit LB can do. Diana bursts just as hard while having an AP scaling shield to absorb damage along with high base stats.

Prediction W'ing a LeBlanc as Lissandra isn't hard considering unless you fuck up royal, most slow reaction cases she will blink back but still get snared. Between your W and Ult, you can hold the infamously squishy bitch down and destroy her, and if your jungle comes its even easier.

Only shit vlads get blown up by LB in lane. Realize what skill she is maxing, pool it. Sustain off her and minions because she can't out mobility your Q. If you always trade back when she goes in, you will out sustain her.

Fizz shits on LB, if she tries to QW too fast troll pole/troll pool will dodge them both. At which point land and shit on her. Dodge her skills faceroll keyboard win matchup.

Ekko is tricky, but your E will follow her W blink back allowing to stay on and beat that ass. Shakiest matchup I suggested. You have to E dodge the W, and auto her as she blinks back to follow her and unleash your combo

Zed he just out harasses her with poke, and out-duels her with his ult dodging her abilities. In addition to hexdrinker being amazing vs LB.

Stops LB in lane item 3001 or item 3155 Stops LB late game item 3102

edit: If LB can just walk up and land an E on you, you're bad just straight up. Banshee's blocking a spell SEVERELY cuts into her damage/risk. If she uses W to pop it, she is in melee range/range to get fucking destroyed. If she uses Q to pop it, she misses out on the Q damage and mark proc which is a huge chunk of her damage. If she used E, the target was bad and deserved to die. Banshee's Veil is a major pain in the ass for LB

WinBoat1 votes

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LB would delete Ahri since the charm nerf, delete Diana, delete Liss unless she has Korean-tier reaction time, and delete Vlad until he stacks health -- and even then, she'd be so stupidly strong at that point that her Q>R>W>E would likely just delete him.

Fizz and Ekko have a chance at surviving her all-in, but they'd be so low that they're forced to back, or die when her absurd fucking Q is off cooldown.

Don't play Zed, so I have no idea.

I main Ekko, he does decent against her if you just try to work your Q on her from afar. You might lose a lot of CS tho. Anyhow, from what I experience with the match up as Ekko, you have to be the one to go in on her, instead of letting her go in on you. She has low HP, and is extremely squishy so if you can go in with E, and proc the passive, she in return proc her passive. I think her options when you blink in is to her Q/W thing, she typically does it, and then trys to chain you right after to scare you. You can probably try W and stun her after and not be fooled.

Also item 2033 is good.

Anyhow, never play Ezreal ever against her, she 1 shots you by level 2.

Luckily by late game she isn't as strong if you built tank.

I want to know how a Kassadin would do because he is the anti-mage killer after all.

SnugglePuggle942 votes

LB can only delete Diana if that Diana player is, well, hella stupid. Otherwise, Diana beats the crap out of LB anytime, and Liss can lock her down or ult herself to gain back some health if she messed up and got a bit too much burst to the face.

Mr Broken Wings4 votes

she has shit waveclear and mediocre range, what do you think you have to do? Right, push her in and shut her laning down, leblanc is surprisingly easyly pressured by several champions and falls off compared to a lot of champs, thats why her winrate is shit. Also banshees veil will completly fuck over her assasination potential.

Niyumi1 votes

Push her into tower, and she has that much more room to fucking nuke you, and get ganks, and all that.

When Q and R combined do over 1600 damage, Veil will do absolutely nothing. She can just throw E at it, Q>R>W you and still win.

Mr Broken Wings2 votes

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Push her into tower, and she has that much more room to fucking nuke you, and get ganks, and all that.

When Q and R combined do over 1600 damage, Veil will do absolutely nothing. She can just throw E at it, Q>R>W you and still win.

I just told you how you win against her, if you believe me or not is up to you friend. Git gud and stop being salty would be my advice here.

AlwaysByMySide3 votes

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I just told you how you win against her, if you believe me or not is up to you friend. Git gud and stop being salty would be my advice here.

You're talking to someone who literally thinks that the people in Masters/Challenger aren't any better than he is and the same is true of the pros, and that they get there just by abusing broken, baby easy OP champions.

Jbels2 votes

She's designed to snowball the mid game by getting kills in lane so...just don't give her kills? As weird as it sounds to not feed a champion kills in lane, that's what you need to do.

Strawberrycocoa2 votes

Basically, either pick someone who can tank out her lane phase by either avoidjng or sustaining through her damage, or pick someone who can farm safely and deny her kills. LB is a bitch 1v1 but doesn't do much in groups except sit around and wait for idiots to straggle off.

She's countered by teamwork and counter-picking and defensive laning, basically. Also MR.

Moulin Rouge1 votes

Velkoz is good at afk wave clearing against her (ww, cleared from a safe distance) If she teleports to you, throw your stun on her tele spot and unleash hell on her.

Zero Skill Tank1 votes

Get MR glyphs, start Ruby+2, rush cowl, laugh at her as she helplessly tries to trade you, laugh at her as she dies at six.

TouchpadExpert1 votes

I like playing Ziggs into LeBlanc. Or Fiddledix. Galio laughs at her. Viktor kind of has a few tools for handling her but you need skill to pull it off. But the best choice is Malzahar because of his ult. Buy rylias and laugh as she has to use her dash just to escape you :)

SnugglePuggle941 votes

Diana great counter to LB. Her shield can negate her burst, and her all in is way better. If she dashes in you can E her before she blinks back, and if you are chasing her when she's low health, you have an extra dash if you reset your ult CD to catch her. Whenever I go against LB I take Diana...well either her or Cho'Gath lmao

MerlinxGluttony1 votes

Galio. GG ez

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