LeBlanc vs Naafiri Counter Pick

Difficulty 2 against difficulty 9, and the cheaper champion wins: LeBlanc records 42.5% across 704 games on patch 16.13.1, with the matchup rated hard. We Are More is the reason the skill gap does not translate. Naafiri’s packmates attack whatever she attacks, which means her damage arrives from several bodies at once and cannot be dodged by sidestepping a single projectile the way Sigil of Malice or Ethereal Chains can be.

Her profile is physical against LeBlanc’s 22 base armor, which only reaches 93.4 at level 18, so cloth armor early does more than any magic resist purchase would. Darkin Daggers apply bleed at range and hit harder against an already bleeding target, giving her a poke pattern that does not require her to enter LeBlanc’s 525-range comfort zone from her own 125. Eviscerate dashes, damages an area and fully heals the pack, which resets the chip damage a burst mage was counting on. Hounds’ Pursuit follows a target through the escape, so Distortion’s return charge is not a guaranteed exit. Mirror Image below 40% health creates a decoy, but packmates that are already attacking do not lose the real body for long. The realistic answer is to force the fight before Naafiri’s item spikes and to keep LeBlanc outside the pack radius that Naafiri depends on.