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.
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential LeBlanc vs. Irelia counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
LeBlanc often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when taking on Irelia, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a bad counter to Irelia.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower win rate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Ireliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, LeBlanc also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
LeBlanc is a garbage counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Irelia.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc in order to counter Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your LeBlanc versus Irelia build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average win rate of 45.8% battling Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Irelia as LeBlanc, you should use 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 builds players chose for LeBlanc vs Irelia fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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