Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable LeBlanc vs. Akshan counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Akshan..
LeBlanc often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when facing off against Akshan, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes a poor counter for Akshan.
While LeBlanc does have a lower winrate than Akshan, when facing one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking LeBlanc into Akshanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
LeBlanc is a trash counter for Akshan. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as LeBlanc against Akshan.
To truly master LeBlanc in order to counter Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akshan. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your LeBlanc versus Akshan build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Akshan than with most other common item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Akshan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Akshan as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for LeBlanc vs Akshan counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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