Kha'Zix vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kha'Zix
based on 3,570 Kha'Zix vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Leona
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Kha'Zix against Leona counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kha'Zix normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Leona
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kha'Zix usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Kha'Zix makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Kha'Zix does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Kha'Zix also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kha'Zix into Leona.
Furthermore, Kha'Zix also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix 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 team members during team fights.
Kha'Zix is a garbage counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kha'Zix against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kha'Zix to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kha'Zix versus Leona build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kha'Zix used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Leona than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Leona as Kha'Zix, Kha'Zix players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kha'Zix vs Leona battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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