LeBlanc already falls off late game WITH damage, so why not build her tanky and have her survive fights, but the enemy runs off laughing at your damage? If you wanna make an offtank guide, get something more reliable than a mejais...

I don't play ranked, I play for fun. ^.^

EDIT: Ah, most of you don't like this. I'm not great at creating builds but I have fun playing it and that what matters the most to me. I'm just glad you all at least took the time to comment. :)

Bad build

Even your screenshots show how bad you are, you have negative score with wins to losing in normals.. you are bad low ELO and probably why you think this terrible build works, but it does not, it takes all the strengths of leblanc and makes them weaknesses.

nice way to cripple amazing mid champ...poor item choice and the guide overal sry..

I am downvoting because while I think that LeBlanc could be viably built into a battlemage, I don't think this is the build, at least in it's current form.

1. You do not build any hybrid AP/survivability items such as Rod of the Ages. Instead, you take a 1-dimensional AP build and tack Warmog's and G-Angel onto it. Yes, I know that TankBlanc is not an actual tank. She's still not tanky enough and she is dependent on tanky items because she has no innate tankiness.

2. Your masteries are nonsense. You should be going 9/21/0 or 9/0/21, but not 21/0/9.

3. MPen glyphs aren't very good. It's minor, but I think flat AP glyphs are a must, particularly if you want a strong early game

I dislike downvotes on unconventional builds out of the blue... This guide still needs a more thourough explanation, as all guides that are out of the mainstream do. Mejais, Warmogs, Guardian certainly is something that might not work on most champions, but LeBlanc is a snowball champion in itself, so taking advantage and making her snowball harder is definitely one way to play her.

It's wrong then. Unless you buy a HP item that DIRECTLY benefits your role as an assassin (i.e. Banshee's Veil for that spell shield), you're wasting the money and kill the potential of LeBlanc. It's either or... Either you choose to kill people and then you are squishy and have to act sharp and precise or you choose to setup your team for kills while still serving a role of an anti-carry by heavily CC-ing, debuffing and dealing significant damage to the target. In that case (since LB has no natural utility to tank), you buy items that would let you give their carry as much problems as possible. And if you think about it, those builds can be really evil. Even with 200~ AP leblanc deals significant amounts of damage, so you have to force her out of the fight. And then items like Randuin's Omen really come into play.

Just buying health for the sake of being less squishy with an assassin build isn't a good option, imo.
And even if you do buy HP items, try to pick something to be more useful for the team. Warmog's is the most useless chunk of health in the League, unless you build it on the champion with lots of natural CC. Then it's strong, because it allows them to stay in the battle for longer and drop more CC on the enemies.

Also, the problem with such build would be that you shouldn't take middle lane with it. You need strong AP damage in mid and if you build like this, it might just not be enough. I thought of top laning as LeBlanc myself and I can't figure out a good, cost efficient build yet.

I was trying to find a happy medium between survivability and burst.


As I said, I don't mean her to be an actual tank but thanks for CC anyway

EDIT: Oh I realized I didn't have the GA in the items, I'll quick add it.

The extra hps won't help you much, she's focused in teamfights and ennemies will probably build MR making you nearly useless. Mejai's should be dropped, I don't see any point in having that on a tank leblanc, mejai's a very situational item and should never be in the core build.

I don't play LeBlanc often, and I won't say this couldn't work. However, this is certainly not tank LeBlanc.

So, you're telling me that having an extra 1300 HP is gonna help when you only have 75 armor and 91 magic resist?

It's a good start, and I'll probably give a more in depth review maybe in a couple days, but it's definitely not as good as it could be. You seem seriously undecided between AP nuker and tanky Leblanc. I have no problem with the idea, as she can lock down someone for a long time with silencing them for at least 3 seconds and snaring them.

I'd transition to a build like this:

Boots + 3x Health pots
Chalice of Harmony
Catalyst the Protector into Rod of Ages (Or try building Rylai's Crystal Scepter)
Tier 2 boots
Rabadon's Deathcap
Athene's Unholy Grail
Zhonya's Hourglass
Guardian Angel Or whatever situational item is necessary at this point.

Or you could go a little tankier

Boots + 3x health pots
Chalice of Harmony
Rod of Ages (I'm just going by finished items now, build components however necessary)
Tier 2 boots
Rabadon's Deathcap
Athene's Unholy Grail
Guardian Angel
Frozen Heart Or Abyssal Mask Or Shurelya's Battlesong (you get the point.)

Thanks for the reply!

When I say TankBlanc, what I really mean is that she's tankier than she usually would be, not that she's an actual tank. The goal of my TankBlanc is to give her enough survivability to do continuous damage in a teamfight while still being able to take out carries reasonably well.

I keep the 21-0-9 scheme because I want to get kills right off the bat for the stacks on the Mejai's Soulstealer. I generally don't run 9-0-21 but I'll be sure to try it.

Thanks again!

Hm...

I'd say, go for Rod of Ages/ Rylai's Crystal Scepter- Randuin's Omen/ Frozen Heart- Lich Bane/ Athene's Unholy Grail- Mercury's Treads...

Unfortunately, Mejai's Soulstealer is a must on tankblanc, but is not a very nice item to get. If you can keep the 20 stacks for CDR, it's great! If you can't, that might be a problem.


Another thing, go 9-0-21 on tankblanc. That's absolutely unquestionalbe. 21-0-9 is a glass cannon build. With it, you hope to increase burst potential as much as possible. On tankblanc, you should rather focus on DPS and thus, cooldown reduction and getting levels faster then your enemy.

Also, you need to get some items to help your team with CC. Originally, LeBlanc doesn't have enough utility to tank. Technically, though, an item such as Randuin's Omen or Shurelya's Battlesong helps to eliminate or soften that circumstance.

Problem with your build is, it's not really tanky. All you get is Warmog's Armor which is nothing, but 2-3 more autoattacks of AD carry in lategame. You definitely need some more armor.