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.
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
The stats provided here clarify some strategic LeBlanc against Kalista counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
LeBlanc typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when facing off against Kalista, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Kalista.
While LeBlanc does have a lower win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking LeBlanc into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a somewhat poor counter to Kalista. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Kalista.
To truly master LeBlanc to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your LeBlanc versus Kalista build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Kalista than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 48.5% battling Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kalista as LeBlanc, you 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 rune builds that we analyzed for LeBlanc vs Kalista clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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