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.
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic LeBlanc against Zoe matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zoe..
LeBlanc typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zoe. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually wins when playing against Zoe, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a good counter for Zoe.
While LeBlanc does have a higher winrate compared to Zoe, when facing one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking LeBlanc into Zoeas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zoe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Zoe matchups, LeBlanc is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a decent counter to Zoe. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as LeBlanc against Zoe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Zoe. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Zoe build include Statikk Shiv, Stormrazor, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Zoe than with many other common builds. In fact, LeBlanc had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Zoe with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Zoe 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for LeBlanc vs Zoe counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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