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.
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical LeBlanc against Xayah counter stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xayah..
LeBlanc normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually fairs equally well when taking on Xayah, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, LeBlanc makes an ok counter for Xayah.
While LeBlanc does have a lower win rate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, LeBlanc also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking LeBlanc into Xayahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, LeBlanc has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Xayah matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
LeBlanc is a somewhat poor counter to Xayah. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Xayah.
If you would like to truly master LeBlanc in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Xayah. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your LeBlanc versus Xayah build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Xayah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 49.8% battling Xayah with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Xayah as LeBlanc, you should take 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 sets we have analyed for LeBlanc vs Xayah clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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