Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important LeBlanc against Illaoi counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi..
LeBlanc usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when facing one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a terribly counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Illaoi.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc most often accumulates less CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your LeBlanc versus Illaoi build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When LeBlanc used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Illaoi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 43.5% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Illaoi as LeBlanc, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for LeBlanc vs Illaoi counters, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.5% win rate overall.
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