Katarina vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Katarina
based on 4,679 Katarina vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Leona
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Katarina versus Leona counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Leona
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Who is Better, Katarina or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Katarina does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a bad counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Leona during both the early game 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 stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average gets much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Leona build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing against Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Leona as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Leona matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.4% win rate overall.
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