LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats provided here show several significant Samira versus LeBlanc matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc..
Samira normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually wins when facing off against LeBlanc, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a good counter to LeBlanc.
While Samira does have a higher winrate compared to LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Samira into LeBlanc.
Moreover, Samira has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This 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 Samira vs LeBlanc matchups, Samira is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Samira is an above average counter for LeBlanc. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Samira against LeBlanc.
If you would like to truly master Samira to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often picks up a similar amount of CS as LeBlanc. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Samira versus LeBlanc build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing LeBlanc than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when countering LeBlanc with this build.
To have the best chance of beating LeBlanc as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Samira vs LeBlanc matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Samira are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.