Ezreal vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Ezreal
based on 8,455 Ezreal vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Leona
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Ezreal vs. Leona counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Ezreal typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Leona
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Ezreal does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Ezreal also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ezreal into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ezreal 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a bad counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ezreal against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal to counter Leona during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal typically gets much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ezreal versus Leona build include Muramana, Trinity Force, and Hubris. When Ezreal incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ezreal boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Leona as Ezreal, Ezreal players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Ezreal vs Leona face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Ezreal are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.