Evelynn vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Evelynn
based on 3,708 Evelynn vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Evelynn vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Evelynn vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Evelynn
Tips for Playing as Evelynn against Leona
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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.
Evelynn vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Evelynn in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Evelynn vs. Leona counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Evelynn typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Evelynn and Leona
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Who is Better, Evelynn or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Evelynn makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Evelynn does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Evelynn also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Evelynn into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Evelynn has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Evelynn is a garbage counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Evelynn in order to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn usually accumulates less CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Evelynn versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Evelynn included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Leona than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when playing against Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Leona as Evelynn, Evelynn players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Evelynn vs Leona fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.8% winrate overall.
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