Akali vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Akali
based on 3,784 Akali vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against LeBlanc
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against LeBlanc
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.
Akali vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Akali versus LeBlanc matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc..
Akali typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than LeBlanc. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and LeBlanc
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Who is Better, Akali or LeBlanc?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually wins when taking on LeBlanc, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a good counter for LeBlanc.
While Akali does have a higher winrate than LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Akali into LeBlancas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs LeBlanc matchups, Akali is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Akali is a good counter to LeBlanc. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akali against LeBlanc.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali often picks up a similar amount of CS as LeBlanc. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Akali versus LeBlanc build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting LeBlanc than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 52.9% battling LeBlanc with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing LeBlanc as Akali, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs LeBlanc counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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