Hwei vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Hwei
based on 6,353 Hwei vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Leona
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Hwei against Leona matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Hwei often has a much larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hwei and Leona
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Who is Better, Hwei or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Hwei makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Hwei also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Hwei into Leonaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Hwei has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This 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 Hwei vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Hwei is a terribly counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei often accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Hwei versus Leona build consist of Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better vs. Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 44.5% battling Leona with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Leona as Hwei, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Hwei vs Leona fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.5% winrate overall.
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