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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital LeBlanc against Samira matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s ratio of NaN, showing that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Samira..
LeBlanc normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when taking on Samira, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a bad counter to Samira.
While LeBlanc does have a lower winrate compared to Samira, when they face off with 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 very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Samiraas 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 Samira. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a bad counter for Samira. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Samira.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your LeBlanc versus Samira build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Samira than with most other typical builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average winrate of 47.7% battling Samira with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Samira 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 combinations players picked for LeBlanc vs Samira counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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