Hi, I am Innae and I am an avid off-meta player to my friends great dismay. That also means that every now and then I come across a little gem, something that should be meta, but is still relatively well hidden - and that is tank LeBlanc.

I first stumbled upon LeBlanc support as a viable champion back in S6 when I started playing, because midlane was too hard as a new player and I loved playing LeBlanc. I then started to pivot as she was clearly not a great support back then and arguably today with a traditional build not the greatest still. After S6 I started playing Bard, a much safer support due to his tankiness, and after I got better and better with him I understood the fundamentals of why he was so good better, it was the itemization.

Lathyrus who is a multi-challenger, multi-rank 1 Bard main has spent a great deal of time theorycrafting and trying out different items on Bard, who heavily relies on his autos to deal damage whilst still being tanky, so I took inspiration from that by using Deadman's Plate as the founding item of roaming tank LeBlanc, because her main weakness is being very squishy and landing an E, especially mid-late is very much a death sentence as most full AP LeBlanc players use E to proc a Q mark.

In S24 I played her in Flex with friends and it was great fun, but I ran into the issues above that mid to late game, the enemies would just hard focus the fed LeBlanc, and then our game was over - BUT NO MORE! YOU CAN'T KILL ME NOW!

TANK LEBLANC BABY.

You can't deal damage from the grayscreen, going tanky lets you be useful and soak up enemy cooldowns.

Playing Tank LeBlanc optimally is relatively easy.

You are weakest level 1, you have a W ability but you can never really outtrade your opponents in lane.

Figure out who has prio

Is your laner a Caitlyn? Then focus on getting level 2 first and punish the enemy laners if they are too far up, your W + E combo level 2 is insanely good at catching out anyone.

Is your laner a Kaisa? Help her last hit under tower using your support item and scout the map for midganks level 3.

You want to be able to buy boots + darkseal, so around 650 gold ideally, alternatively you can also back at 350 gold to just buy dark seal. Try to match your laner.

Remember that you want to provide your laner with as little support as possible, if you show botlane river and ward for safety, opposing players will not play as aggressively on your adc, that is often enough for you to counter jungle with your jungler or gank mid.

With Symbiotic built it unlocks you to roam to top and be botlane fast enough to catch crashing waves, use your W to gap close as well.

Since we have the Deep Wards rune you should ward behind the wall between Krugs and Blue Buff on Blue Side and ward both Krugs and Red Buff brush when on Red Side. Alternatively Tribrush works fine for Red Side too but is usually control warded.

Tip: Don't buy Control wards. They are only delaying your item spikes.

Mid to late you want to catch out as many as possible, burn their flash and repeat W + E engages, you want to usually do a W + E (if lands) + R (wait for first E to land) + Q your strength is catching people out and letting your team finish them off, whilst tanking whatever disengage the enemies may have.

In lower elo the enemy support usually wards alone, abuse this. Is Nami trying to ward drake and river alone? Catch her in her jungle as she moves up. You have so much more mobility and disengage if things turn sour, and symbiotic lets you escape easily even deep in enemy territory.

Tank LeBlanc only works because these items synergize and buff your AP allies.

Celestial Opposition is just a solid item, a lot of champions has high initial bursts and this item cuts 25% of that damage off. Depending on the game you can also go Zak'Zak but in 99% of games Celestial Opposition will be worth it.

Dark Seal is a cheap starter item that will allow you to scale from roams, later you can build it into Mejai's and enjoy the extra movement speed.

Symbiotic Boots makes you insanely agile all over the map, you can be anywhere anytime. You get caught deep in enemy jungle? Just W a wall and click b. Profit.

Deadmans Plate is just a great item, mobility, damage and tankiness. Best Roaming item by far.

Ludens Companion is optional, I value Abyssal Mask higher due to the 12% damage AMP, but in a lot of games you won't have a great AP carry, IF YOU DO, build Abyssal Mask, but if not you are better off with Ludens Companion.

Optional items are Knights Vow (fed carry), Thornmail (fx. 20-0 Enemy Rengar), Bloodletters Curse(Fed AP), Morellonomicon (Antiheal), Zhonya's Hourglass (Karthus/Hard Focused)