LeBlanc vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as LeBlanc
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LeBlanc vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best LeBlanc vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as LeBlanc against Sion
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.
Advice to Win Against Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
LeBlanc vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with LeBlanc in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic LeBlanc vs. Sion counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
LeBlanc often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Sion. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between LeBlanc and Sion
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Who is Better, LeBlanc or Sion?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when facing off against Sion, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, LeBlanc makes a bad counter for Sion.
While LeBlanc does have a lower win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, LeBlanc also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking LeBlanc into Sionas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, LeBlanc has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Sion matchups, Sion is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
LeBlanc is a terribly counter to Sion. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Sion. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Sion build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Sion than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average win rate of 46.4% battling Sion with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Sion as LeBlanc, LeBlanc players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for LeBlanc vs Sion counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sion as LeBlanc are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.