Killing LeBlanc, ha!

The Raidbringer·5/24/2015, 10:28:52 PM·47 votes·3,443 views

You know, every once in a while the enemy LeBlanc gets a , gets a few kills afterwards and you're forced to deal with that or she'll just double distortion your team and end the game. So, trying to kill your squishy she overextends and is forced to and W away. You catch up to her with a ultimate and guess what??? Hmmmm???

She activates , waits for cooldowns during the 2,5 second stasis and double dashes away again. Meanwhile the Jinx has taken all the towers in a lane and you feel stupid because ignoring LeBland would have been just as detrimental to your team.

Sometimes I wish champions that are immune to bad situations like just didn't exist.

64 Comments

allthemuslims5/25/2015, 1:51:15 AM12 votes

Leblanc destroys most of her early lanes, gets a nice spike at 6 and 11, and drops off late game. If your team is full of squishies, sure, she just keeps spiking and spiking and becomes an unstoppable monster, but shame on you and the rest of your team for picking 5 squishies. She isn't a real plausible threat in teamfights if your frontline is even decent at their jobs. She's squishy as all hell and if she unloads her burst on you then your carry gets free rain of her team while she waits for cooldowns, or she has to juke around the tanks to get at the squishy, which sets her easy kill combo (q r w w) on cooldown while her w is down. again, while she's looking for an angle on your squishies she's doing nothing for her team and it's a 4v5 fight. And if she gets behind and can't even burst a squishy, it's game over for her. She's mobile, yes, but using her double mobility also removes most of her burst damage, unless your team decided to clump up and get double distortioned. And other champions punish that grouping much harder than LB (Orianna, Malphite, Gnar, Viktor to name a few) LeBlanc is not overly overbearing, unless you try to get in her face as a squishy. TL;DR you guys don't realize that her insane burst combo can't be combined with her absurd mobility combo. She has to choose whether to reposition or 1 shot someone squishy, which plenty of other champions can do as well (You don't complain about Syndra's point and click "I hate you, you're dead"or Malzahar's "Okay I'm going to ruin your day no matter how tanky you build" playstyles. LB risks her body for a superior burst, lower CD, and some mobility. I think that that's a fair trade)

EvilRabbitt5/24/2015, 10:48:14 PM11 votes

LeBlanc is not immune to bad situations. None of them are. In the case of the former 3, point and click cc should be used when you see them gearing up to be mobile (dash/leap/etc)- Maokai, Annie, Fiddlesticks, etc. These are all strong. Now to riven? Freaking easy. She is super feast or famine, pick an abusive early game champ like Pantheon or Darius or even Caitlyn (yes, this works...). Just saying. They are strong, but thats because NOBODY wants to adjust to win- they wanna play there Yasuo into that Zed, the Fizz into Cho'gath. But realizing that you can't just "outplay" a hard counter is crucial to winning a ~~STRATEGY~~ game. Yep. This is not Super Smash Bros. This is a MOBA, a strategy game. Even though Riot is moving to flashier and flashier plays, the circumstances stick until all point and click abilities vanish. You can be countered, you will be countered, and you cannot beat your counter in an ~~even~~ matchup. You can only survive.

Oh wait, I forgot. I'm a bronzie, my opinions are invalidated. Enjoy winning those Cho'gath match-ups while playing combo oriented champions ^.^ Idk what I'm saying.

ApplyForAGrant5/25/2015, 12:38:07 AM5 votes

I don't understand why the rage at LB is still so strong. Most of us don't even see her anymore since she's banned so much.

Zen Fury5/25/2015, 1:53:49 PM3 votes

You pick Leblanc for early game pubstomps. That's all she's really good for. If the team with LeStank is't aggressively pressing that advantage and the games go late, she's not very useful.

She's a single target assassin. Once you're beyond the gank and spank phase of the game her contributions become limited. At least at higher levels of play.

PlushBores5/25/2015, 2:36:50 AM3 votes

Talon Hi

Mylon Requiem5/25/2015, 5:21:28 PM2 votes

Here are a few champions in the current meta that excel at locking down LeBlanc with absolutely zero chance of escape: Annie Urgot Maokai Morgana Thresh

Stop complaining about a champion and consider the fact that maybe it's your failure to understand what to do to shut down the champion, and not the champion itself. As a Leblanc main, I assure you playing against Talon Swain Zed Lissandra Kassadin Diana Chogath is not fun nor easy, and if I win the matchup or get fed, it's because I'm skilled, not because the champion is broken and easy-mode.

Recently I just shit on a Leblanc as Nidalee midlane, which is extremely hard to do assuming you're against a skilled opponent. The enemy LeBlanc never pressured me for CS nor did she trade or W-R to get free damage on me, so I just scaled, got one item, hit her with one spear, and all-in'd with summoner 14 . Learn how to play the champion and you''ll quickly learn counterplay.

The3cho5/25/2015, 1:35:53 AM2 votes

Vi's point and click isn't instant like the champions EvilRabbitt mentioned. Almost all LeBlanc I face are actually pretty bad, but, they get away with being bad because they're blinded by their raw damage alone. Lately, whether she's banned or not for some reason doesn't scare me anymore...and I main ADC of all things.

If your map awareness and warding is good, her ganking paths are rather predictable. In teamfights, same thing with the wards: watch her on the map and - above all - stay behind your frontline.

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Oh wait, I forgot. I'm a bronzie, my opinions are invalidated. Enjoy winning those Cho'gath match-ups while playing combo oriented champions ^.^ Idk what I'm saying.

Don't count yourself out my friend! I was bronze as well with a declining record. I'm barely silver now and slowly climbing. Everyone has their own bit of game knowledge to share, big or small.

Wheatloaf5/25/2015, 11:18:16 PM2 votes

Play Malzahar, slap your entire keyboard harder than she does, then scream "OUTPLAYED" in /all chat.

Okay, she's a terrible early lane for Malz, but most LeBlanc players would be extremely peeved if you did do that.

Big Bang Bob5/26/2015, 12:59:47 AM1 votes

Nidalee 's dash is short unless she hits an enemy with something, and if you manage to keep her from getting a reset, you can blow her up easily.

Nidalee SO NYAAA5/25/2015, 11:46:48 PM1 votes

lol Nid is not to bad situations. She does not have a fucking undo button like LB does or a stun like Riven does.

8bj2yMEanN5/26/2015, 12:18:06 AM1 votes

IKR I wish they would just remove all high mobility champs xD

Zahz5/25/2015, 7:19:16 PM1 votes

that sounds like u just got outplayed. as Vi you just tried to ult her and she did the rest of your post....