Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats shown here show several valuable Akshan vs. LeBlanc counter stats that can help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than LeBlanc..
Akshan usually has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when trying to fight LeBlanc, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a great counter to LeBlanc.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than LeBlanc, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Akshan into LeBlanc.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs LeBlanc matchups, Akshan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a great counter to LeBlanc. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against LeBlanc.
To truly master Akshan in order to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akshan versus LeBlanc build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better versus LeBlanc than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 53.3% when playing against LeBlanc with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating LeBlanc as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akshan vs LeBlanc counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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