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.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable LeBlanc against Annie counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Annie..
LeBlanc normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Annie. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually fairs equally well when playing against Annie, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes an ok counter to Annie.
While LeBlanc does have a higher winrate compared to Annie, when facing one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking LeBlanc into Annieas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Annie matchups, LeBlanc is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a decent counter for Annie. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Annie.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Annie. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your LeBlanc versus Annie build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Annie than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Annie with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Annie as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for LeBlanc vs Annie fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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