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.
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
The stats provided here highlight several critical LeBlanc vs. Rakan matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
LeBlanc normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from 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 Rakan, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While LeBlanc does have a lower winrate than Rakan, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion 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 to Rakan. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as LeBlanc against Rakan.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Rakan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Rakan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan 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 picked for LeBlanc vs Rakan battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.1% winrate overall.
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