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.
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential LeBlanc vs. Heimerdinger counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Heimerdinger..
LeBlanc usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter for Heimerdinger.
While LeBlanc does have a lower winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, LeBlanc also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, LeBlanc has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
LeBlanc is a trash counter for Heimerdinger. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Heimerdinger.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your LeBlanc versus Heimerdinger build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Heimerdinger 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. Out of all the runes players picked for LeBlanc vs Heimerdinger counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as LeBlanc are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.