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.
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital LeBlanc vs. Shaco matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Shaco..
LeBlanc normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when taking on Shaco, with a 41.4% win rate. Therefore, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Shaco.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate than Shaco, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking LeBlanc into Shacoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Shaco. 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 overall in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
LeBlanc is a garbage counter to Shaco. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as LeBlanc against Shaco.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc to counter Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc most often gets much more CS relative to Shaco. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your LeBlanc versus Shaco build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When LeBlanc bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Shaco than with most other typical item sets. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 41.4% when playing against Shaco with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Shaco as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for LeBlanc vs Shaco face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.4% winrate overall.
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