Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 underscore some strategic Kai'Sa vs. LeBlanc matchup statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than LeBlanc..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a good counter to LeBlanc.
While Kai'Sa does have a higher win rate than LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kai'Sa into LeBlanc.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs LeBlanc matchups, Kai'Sa is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is an above average counter to LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against LeBlanc.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often racks up a similar amount of CS as LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus LeBlanc build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting LeBlanc than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against LeBlanc with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing LeBlanc as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs LeBlanc counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.6% win rate overall.
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