Cassiopeia vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Cassiopeia
based on 1,291 Cassiopeia vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Leona
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Cassiopeia vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several vital Cassiopeia vs. Leona matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Cassiopeia normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Leona
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Leona?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually wins when playing against Leona, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Cassiopeia makes a great counter for Leona.
While Cassiopeia does have a higher winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Cassiopeia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Cassiopeia into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Cassiopeia has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Leona matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Cassiopeia is a great counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cassiopeia against Leona.
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Additional Information for Cassiopeia Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Cassiopeia to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia on average gets much more CS relative to Leona. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Cassiopeia versus Leona build include Seraph's Embrace, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Cassiopeia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average winrate of 53.1% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Leona as Cassiopeia, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Cassiopeia vs Leona fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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