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New LB Play Style

MyNameIsFaran··2 votes·468 views

As we all know Lb is an assassin NOT. Rito has changed her from an assassin to a burst mage. She has gone from Akali to Kassadin and for that she need a new play style to fit into that role and to optimize her strengths. LeBlanc strengths:

  1. Her Q CD is Low
  2. Her Q Cost almost is nothing with DR
  3. Her W has a shit ton of movement
  4. Her E does a shit ton of damage including the autos
  5. Her Lvl 6 Power spike (with proper CS) is to be feared

With those's strengths 1 play style comes to mind Kass, Path, Annie, Sona, etc all those champs use deathfire touch to increase there early poke and to get ahead of lane by farming and zoning the thing that these champs don't have compared to lb is early kill potential. Lb's W allows her to move her self to the back of the lane after poking to deal the finally blow. Some of these poke champs like Kass have that but they get it after so much farm and lvls while lb gets the kill potential at lvl 3.

As to why this lb play style is so strong is because of these very reasons Path's and Kass's poke combined with Syndra's kill potential it becomes something to fear after playing this play style in many games you'll come to realize that this can also be played with thunderlords only it won't be as effective but as you play even more using both play styles they start to blend and become 1 ultimate play style the only thing you need to do then is to switch your masteries from thunderlords to DFT for certain champs. What masteries to go vs who 1.Yasuo Deathfire shits on Yas's passive and forces him to play safe or to play agro 2.Orianna Deathfire you can Q poke Ori instead of trying to proc thunderlords on amplified auto Ori and getting out traded now you can Q. 3.Syndra Deathfire instead of trying your hardest in dodging all her skill shots and landing a e q r q while dodging with w you can just Q.

If you see the pattern youll get used to it good at knowing when to use what masteries vs who.

4-10.Fizz, Akali, Ezreal, Morgana, Nidalee, Talon, Zed Thunderlords people that you know you can out trade. zed can be either but my skill as lb and as a player puts him in this list.

Now for how to play it its simple you Q, Q, and Q while farming. building wise is where lb gets tricky vs Yas I would start item 1082 and go Deathfire because all Yasuos suck in my Elo for someone with more sustain and AP I would get item 1056 and after I get item 3145 I'd get item 1057 and that would win me lane.

For those who are skeptics I encourage you go and try it. and for those who read the entire thing Thank you & Sorry.

9 Comments

nm10102 votes

Doran's shield already makes q poke awful, taking DFT would just make it that much worse.

MyNameIsFaran1 votes

I have never seen someone take Doran shield mid yet that is a new 1 so i have 0 experience on it so i cant comment. but fuck what i just said because q does much more then 20 damage also DFT just adds on to that damage.

nm10102 votes

I have never seen someone take Doran shield mid yet that is a new 1 so i have 0 experience on it so i cant comment.

It is pretty common vs Leblanc from what I've seen. Every Corki, Akali,Yasuo, etc takes it and you will run oom before you can drop them to 60% if you try to poke with q.

but fuck what i just said because q does much more then 20 damage also DFT just adds on to that damage.

DFT refreshes the heal so you actually get something around 30 hp back which is basically a break even for DFT damage. Mix in the passive heal on Dshield and it gets pretty hard to do any significant damage when your q is losing ~40% of it's damage at rank 1.

MyNameIsFaran1 votes

hmm I see I really haven't faced vs it yet but I quess like i said in my post and can combine the poke lb with normal lb and make most things work. only champ I had a problem with was ori that build chalice and had mr runes and built mr boots

nm10102 votes

I'm trying to be nice, LeBlanc already has problems dealing with Doran's shield and DFT would just make it worse. Getting 10 extra damage on q (before mitigation) isn't worth it at all. Let's do some math shall we?

Typical damage vs a 30 MR (Base MR with no runes) opponent as LeBlanc with DFT

10 x (100/130) = ~7.6 + (55 x (100/130)) = 50 - 30 from Dshield healing = 20 damage per q, not even worth the mana used to cast it. Not to mention the passive healing for 6 hp per 5 seconds...

MyNameIsFaran1 votes

i dont think you understand its just not q your using this play style true form is adaption and also i am not trying to be mean or hurtful i am only saying that i for 1 haven't seen dorans shield in mid.

nm10101 votes

I don't think you understand that DFT is 10 damage premitigation at level 1 and has no base damage scaling on top of being straight up awful vs doran's shield. Compared to a level 3 thunderlords you are missing nearly 20 burst damage. The absolute best case scenario you MAY gain an extra single digit bit of damage in a spaced out trade at level 3. Not to mention no matter how laning goes your mid-late game burst will suffer for taking DFT.

MyNameIsFaran1 votes

tbh i think i am only geting this becasue i am low rank cuz if you saw someone in lcs do it you wouldn't respond like this cuz since the lb rework i been useing hextech gunblade but everone called me a dumbass like you and now look fuck off leauge board comm is shit and fucking retarded

nm10101 votes

tbh i think i am only geting this becasue i am low rank cuz if you saw someone in lcs do it you wouldn't respond like this

I've played with the people in the LCS and quite frankly I think just about every LeBlanc outside of Bjergson that I've watched plays like a gosh darn idiot.

cuz since the lb rework i been useing hextech gunblade but everone called me a dumbass like you

First off I never called you anything and secondly she didn't need the damage until the w nerf so buying a 3400g item that gives ad was just silly when you could go morello and still kill in one combo.

fuck off leauge board comm is shit and fucking retarded

I'm sorry doing the actual math on a build is retarded.

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