Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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.
The stats shown here show some influential Fiora against Leona matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Fiora often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiora usually fairs equally well when taking on Leona, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Fiora makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Fiora does have a lower win rate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiora into Leona.
Furthermore, Fiora 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Fiora is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Leona.
To learn all of the intricacies of Fiora in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora often accumulates much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Fiora versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Death's Dance. When Fiora combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Fiora had an average win rate of 49.4% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Leona as Fiora, Fiora players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Unflinching, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Fiora vs Leona counters, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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