Its not a matter of if it is counterable or not, you could have countered the leigs aswell, but would it be fun? No. The point is that you need to work your ass off and suffer the whole game, just to maybe win against it. That is bad design. Nothing more or less.
The ultimate goal of games is to be FUN.
leigs at its worst state werent counterable by any single way. Worst BS ever happened to this game. When a lot of really retarded players inflated their ranks with leig use. OP is whining about balance not fun.
Fun and balance are irrelevant to each other in this case. Did i get you right? So its balanced just no fun to play longer game of this syle.