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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats provided here underscore several important LeBlanc versus Soraka counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between these two champions. LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Soraka. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
LeBlanc often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when taking on Soraka, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes a bad counter for Soraka.
While LeBlanc does have a lower win rate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Sorakaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a terribly counter to Soraka. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Soraka.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc most often picks up much more CS relative to Soraka. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Soraka build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when countering Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Soraka 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for LeBlanc vs Soraka face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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