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All these years, I've been fighting Leblanc all wrong...

xxxDogmanxxx··85 votes·7,188 views

I wanna share something embarrassing today.

Did you guys know that If you move out of range, you can break Leblanc's Ethereal Chains without getting rooted? Because for the longest time, I sure as hell didn't. I legit only learned about this today while duo-queueing with my friend who is a master-tier Leblanc main. After the game, I immediately checked out Leblanc's entry on the wiki and it turns out that indeed, that was the case.

All this time, I thought that getting rooted by Leblanc was simply punishment that you deserved for getting hit with her hard-to-land chain. So me being the meat-for-brains Xin Zhao main that I am, decided years ago that when I do get chained by Leblanc, I would always FLASH IN OR AUDACIOUS CHARGE RIGHT BESIDE HER. My reasoning at the time was that since I thought I was going to get rooted 100% anyway, I might as well be in melee range so that I can still whack her with my spear. And call it sheer luck or pure DPS, but as impossible as this sounds, doing this has ALMOST ALWAYS WORKED for me in my mind. I literally thought that this was the actual, proper counter to getting chained by Leblanc. Flash in and whack her with a spear.

Now all I can think about is how fucking retarded I must have looked to every Leblanc player I did this to. What about you guys? What are the things in League of Legends that surprise you with how embarrassingly long it took to learn about?

216 Comments

Sahn Uzal59 votes

I can't come up with anything like that that happened to me, but there are probably some examples that I do not remember.

A tip for Fighting Illaoi though, because a lot of people struggle against her and don't know how to deal with her. If Illaoi lands her E and kills your spirit, tentacles will spawn near you and attack you, right? Illaoi's tentacles won't spawn within a certain distance from each other, so as soon as her Curse-debuff gets applied, dodge the first tentacle that spawns, and hug that tentacles for the rest of the duration. This means no new tentacles will spawn and attack you because they won't spawn next to that first tentacle.

Also, Illaoi's all in becomes a lot weaker if you dodge her E before she ults. The reason for that is that her E will spawn an additional tentacle and the Just-spawned tentacles will automatically slam down on the spirit.

Why did I type this? Maybe someone will read this and have a facepalm moment like OP had with LB. :^)

TyrekGoldenspear24 votes

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

TY.

xxxDogmanxxx26 votes

Funny that you mentioned Illaoi. Did you know that, correctly-timed, both Xin's knock-up and his ult can interrupt Illaoi's ult? It's hilarious to see Illaoi jumping high into the air, ready to slam her ult into the ground, only to get sent careening into the air again.

Sahn Uzal7 votes

Wait, really? o.o

That might be a bug, afaik she's supposed to be immune to CC during her Ultimate Leap

Scoroct2 votes

If I am not mistaken, doesnt that first tentacle just attack you again when a new one should spawn? I believe thats how it works

Ariel the Cruel5 votes

All tentacles in rage will attack you. Tentacles spawn slightly before so they can attack.

It Hertz When IP46 votes

You probably scared the dog crap out of LB players with that, though. All-in'ing when she lands her chain probably goes on record as the last thing most of them were expecting, ergo they might not have known how to react.

So cheer up, you can label your previous reaction as intentionally trying to catch them off guard. ^-^

xxxDogmanxxx10 votes

Lol =D

Melledoneus48 votes

Leblanc "Tricky, aren't y- HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT WTF IS HAPPENING"

doombotMECHA4 votes

ABORT ABORT ABORT

paisy41 votes

I thought Jhin's Q allowed him to proc his W, because everything else did

Sahn Uzal27 votes

Wait, it doesn't?

Ackelope24 votes

Nah, I assume because Riot doesn't want him to be able to snare people at long range without one of three things: -help from team, -buying item 3094 , or -putting down some well-placed traps. I assume they just want him to be a little more team-reliant and based on planning, rather than "oh hey one of my grenades randomly bounced to a dude, sure lemme go in now."

Big Lincoln2 votes

Even thornmail lets him proc his W

lol

Auz the Ripper1 votes

As long as it's not His thornmail

AMYS GRAVE30 votes

But he's an adc like ashe, he should be rushing thornmail! #TutorialAdvice

The Deckowner31 votes

well to be fair you probably won't be able ti walk out of that 1k teather range as xin zhao anyways, jumping on her face and nuking her down might not be that bad of a choice.

Nameless Voice10 votes

It's almost impossible to escape her leash with almost any champion anyway, since she normally casts it from a fairly close range and there's simply no way you can get that far away that fast.

Jumping in and nuking her is the best option.

Photos of Ghosts27 votes

I didn't know you were supposed to only last hit, so I bought AS items on everyone to increase my chances of killing minions by continuously attacking them.

Takatsuki Yayoi25 votes

literally last week i kept throwing ezreal Ws into minion waves and wondering why i kept missing cs

quasistellar24 votes

you can be forgiven for not knowing because the tether is about 12 miles long

Arakadia12 votes

And she has some of the best mobility to stick to you anyways.

Ravore5 votes

Truth. There is basically no reason to try to get away if it lands on you because even if you flash you're in that shit

Auroramancer17 votes

Not something that took me a long time to learn about, but still funny.

Back in 2010 when I was a meager level 4 summoner, I was a Master Yi main. I bought Tear of the Goddess on him because I wanted to spam Alpha Strike as much as I wanted, and would always buy Frozen Mallet, because at the time, most players didn't know how to fight back, they would always run away without attacking, so I'd just chase them down with Highlander + Mallet until they died.

But one champion threw me for a loop, and it was Tryndamere, the undying piece of shit. Every game, I remember seeing his mana bar be empty, so when I did buy him, my first game, I took Heal and Clarity as summoner spells, because I would clearly be out of mana A LOT with this guy.

And that was the game I found out about health cost spells...

500000000000000012 votes

Does Tryndamere have health costs? I thought his abilities were free.

Auroramancer10 votes

Tryndamere used to have health costs and no resource bar before they remade him into a Rage fighter with free ability costs

Around999People8 votes

Rofl. As an old Trynd main I applaud you lol

invisiblecat117 votes

I used to think Blitz hook automatically knocked you up after you were pulled, so I would not even try to run once his pull ended

Poske15 votes

well tbh the range is fairly large but atleast it doesnt slow anymore

xxxDogmanxxx8 votes

That's another thing! I legit did not know that it used to slow until I checked the wiki today, because again, I literally always Flashed in or Audacious Charged in whenever I would get chained. I never even noticed I was slowed because I would be rooted right beside Leblanc hitting her with my spear!

Noblewind15 votes

I played a dozen games or so without realizing Ziggs had a second cast for his satchel, I thought you had to strategize around the timer....

Leo102415 votes

I used to always build item 3078 on Lux because it had nice stats and i didn't understand the difference between ap and ad

NightmareAmazoX10 votes

[zombie-brand-clap]

TheOnlyJoe12 votes

When i first read the tooltip of Yasuo's ult, i thought it ment that my ult was only usable on any champion that flies/levitates in the air (Anivia, Galio, Syndra) etc and did not know Airborne ment a target that was knocked up

This was when i was pretty new to the game lol

Ravore6 votes

This is pretty hilarious. Yasuo automatically wins vs champs with wings

Woodakoodashooda10 votes

Took me until recently to learn that Airborne is not the only kind of Knock Up in the game. Pulls, knock backs, and knock asides (pretty much any forced movement) are all knock ups.

Gregor Gysi14 votes

You surely mean that knock ups are not the only type of airborne and that pulls, knockbacks etc. are also airborne effects.

Woodakoodashooda1 votes

No, I meant what I said. Because Yasuo's ultimate works on knocked up enemies. And many displacement effects in the game are considered knock ups.

Gregor Gysi17 votes

In that case I am afraid you are wrong. Yasuo's ultimate works on airborne targets

Moves to a unit and strikes them repeatedly for heavy damage. Can only be cast on Airborne targets.

Every knockup will move units into the "airborne" status while not every "airborne" status was caused by a knockup. For further information on the Airborne and knockups take a look at this page.

Mogarl10 votes

I used to think that if Leblanc jumped on you and then hit you with a chain there was a point in flashing away.

DwarvenGiant9 votes

This might sound like the most stupid thing in this thread, but I used to be lazy and not read UI and tooltips when I was a beginner, a few good years back, so when I became an Anivia main and started having a reason to buy Liandry's Torment, I was convinced the item doubled your DoT.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, is this guy an absolute dumbo? Well, yes, I really, really was.

I guess it just lined up in my eyes with how Liandry's Torment's AP gave a nice damage boost to Anivia's Glacial Storm, as well as its extra, good-looking burn damage of time.

Only a few months down the road, I was discussing champion builds with my friend, and he stopped me and said something along the lines of, "DOUBLE DAMAGE OVER TIME? WTF are you talking about, dude?".

I was a little disappointed after he revealed the truth to me, but I kept buying the item regardless, of course. lol

Doctor344 votes

Well, item 3151 do double the damage on movement-impaired unit, but only for its passive damage. In some ways, you're still right. [slayer-jinx-wink]

iLLp5 votes

you want to know an even better match up vs leblanc?

jarvan.

jarvan trashes leblanc easily yet nobody knows

Kosm1K2 votes

As a person who plays lb a lot, i can confirm that j4 kicks my ass

DaSarcasticGuy3 votes

{quoted}

As a person who plays lb a lot, i can confirm that j4 kicks my ass

You think it's cuz he's pissed she impersonated him? Like him being good against her is just him unleashing all that pent up rage?

A Kiting Janna5 votes

I use to play thresh a ton. And after like 5 months I realized that allies can grab the lantern and come to me. I was just using it for a shield this entire time..

I also use to build everyone the same, as an ADC. Because I didn't know the difference between AD and AP.

Muddafragot4 votes

Stupid dog, you make me look good! pulls out J4 mask

Sonasaurous1 votes

I finally learned last week that the counter to Teemo is building MR.

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Kosm1K1 votes

Unless he's ad

Shadragon4 votes

Then the counter is killing him because he's useless.

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