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.
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
The stats provided here underscore some important LeBlanc against Shaco matchup stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Shaco..
LeBlanc typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when trying to fight Shaco, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter for Shaco.
While LeBlanc does have a lower win rate compared to Shaco, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Shacoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shaco. 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 in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a bad counter for Shaco. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Shaco.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc in order to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc typically gets much more CS relative to Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your LeBlanc versus Shaco build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Shaco than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Shaco with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Shaco as LeBlanc, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for LeBlanc vs Shaco clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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