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.
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential LeBlanc vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xin Zhao’s ratio of NaN, indicating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xin Zhao..
LeBlanc normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 44.2% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Xin Zhao.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate than Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This 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 Xin Zhao matchups, Xin Zhao is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
LeBlanc is a garbage counter for Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Xin Zhao.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc on average picks up much more CS compared to Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your LeBlanc versus Xin Zhao build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 44.2% when countering Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Xin Zhao as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for LeBlanc vs Xin Zhao clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
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