LeBlanc vs Soraka Counter Pick

Healing beats burst when the burst fails to kill, and that is the arithmetic behind 42.2% for LeBlanc over 173 games on patch 16.13.1, difficulty computed as hard. Astral Infusion converts Soraka’s own health into an ally’s, Starcall returns health whenever it hits a champion, and Wish restores every allied champion at once from anywhere on the map. A poke pattern built on Sigil of Malice detonations produces damage that all three of those undo between engagements.

Soraka is also less fragile than her role suggests. She carries 32 base armor climbing to 117 at level 18, higher than most backline supports, and 605 health, which limits what a magic burst into 30 magic resist achieves in one rotation. Equinox is the sharper tool: a zone that silences everyone inside and roots whoever remains when it expires, and a silenced LeBlanc cannot detonate the mark, recast Distortion or use Mimic, which is her entire damage sequence. At 325 move speed against 340 she cannot run, so the counterplay is to force the all-in outside Equinox and to commit only when the mark can be spent immediately. Salvation speeds Soraka toward wounded allies, meaning she arrives faster than expected, and a 598-health frame behind 22 base armor loses any fight that outlasts LeBlanc‘s cooldowns.