Archiving this since I haven't played her enough recently to accurately update it for the recent patches. Will publish again once it's more updated and complete.

I actually find this build pretty fun,tested it for a few PVP matches and I'm actually enjoying myself and finding myself pretty useful late game. Will conitnue on supporting your style by using your build along with using a few tweaks of my own.

Ethereal Chains apparently isn't considered single-target by the game, similar to Twin Fang. This is true for both the initial hit and the snare. I'm surprised that it took me this long to notice, but the implications are as follows:

• It will not proc or refresh the movement speed buff of Enchantment: Furor.
• It will not proc the toggle active effect of Muramana.
• It will not apply the full slow of Rylai's Crystal Scepter (not like you're building this item anyway).
• It will not heal for the full Spell Vamp percentage from its damage.

Strange behavior, could be a bug.

I have hear about this build some times and your seems good. Well explaned, good bbcode (just littles walls of text) and you write a good sup page (even i don't see veigar in that) as most, good guide keep it update for us ;)

Thanks for this guide! Just gave AD LeBlanc a try, and it definitely isn't that bad! Early game is just fab to be honest. Hopefully the amount of instadislikers will go away soon, this deserves some credit.

^ This is very true. Her damage output lategame will not scale the same way as traditional AD carries like Graves because her skills have no AD ratios. Success with this build in ranked and normals generally relies on the following:

• Metagaming the opponent AP into taking a magic resist page, making them do no damage.
• Therafter, counterpicking their AP mid with Talon or a similar AD assassin, making their MR runes worthless during laning phase. (If you still need AP damage on your team, send someone like Singed top and they'll most likely do fine. Make sure that the opponent can't just lane swap to victory, however.)
• Using LeBlanc's incredible early game to completely shut down the enemy AP Carry; without early game farm, Vayne and Ashe become pretty worthless (carries like Caitlyn with great early game automatically become relatively worthless midgame if not fed). Squishy supports like Sona are easy pickings for you as well.

Accomplishing the above three things will put your team so ahead that the enemy will have zero control over objectives like Dragon or Baron because their AP mid and ADC have no farm, no kills, and do no damage. Your team will be able to consistently get even more ahead as a result, and eventually win.

As was mentioned, what LeBlanc lacks in attack range and AD skills, she more than makes up for by her abilities. Many popular AD carries have little to no CC ( Ezreal, Sivir and Corki have absolutely none), but LeBlanc has a silence, a snare, a ridiculous mobility spell that does damage, plus an ultimate that can copy one of those. This gives her excellent 1v1 and kiting capabilities, and she'll be a force to be reckoned with if you played your cards right.

P.S. I know this can also be accomplished with a lane swap of mid/bot, but that's not as fun now, is it?

Leblanc can AD like most ranged champs can AD, she simply doesn't have AD Scaling abilities or Steroids and her range is pitiable. Her only pros has an AD is the ability to CC through silence/slow/snare and mobility through W and a mimicked W

i think this could be a viable way of play le blanc, but its so strange for the actual meta, i go to try this build, and if it works i come again and vote up, if not im not going to downvote cause im not good (and dont like) playing adc, and for that probably i fail whit adc leblanc so hard XD.
Good guide, exelent work.

P.D. Sorry for my poor english XD

Except Galio. Fizz is a better AD carry than Galio.

Well explained. Manamune seems like it would be a powerful item on LeBlanc because her skills are nearly all single-target.

I think it's a bit too late, since as far as I can tell C2V only applies to the first 20 votes and the guide has 17 votes already (whoops!). Plus, even if people think AD LeBlanc is stupid and want to downvote no matter what, they are entitled to their vote and opinion because they are still part of the LoL community.

Interesting guide. Always thought about trying AD LeBlanc due to reasons you posted. I -strongly- suggest you make it mandatory to post a comment for votes due to simply how controversial this build is. Seriously, do it :P It's good enough to be higher rated than it currently is, even if you don't care about guide ratings. More people should check it out.

This is a valid point, I'll work on improving that soon!


I actually didn't know about Siv HD's video until after I posted the initial revision of the guide and folks at lag.tv linked me to it, but it was too funny not to add. If his swearing is a problem for you, I can add a warning for it.