Kayle vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kayle
based on 4,006 Kayle vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Kayle Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Leona
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kayle in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Kayle vs. Leona matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Leona
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Who is Better, Kayle or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Kayle does have a lower win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Kayle also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Kayle into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a trash counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kayle
Additional Information for Kayle Players
How We Calculated Our Kayle vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle often picks up much more CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Leona as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kayle vs Leona counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
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