Kindred vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kindred
based on 2,708 Kindred vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Leona
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Kindred against Leona matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kindred normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Leona
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Who is Better, Kindred or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 45.3% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Kindred does have a much lower win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Kindred also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kindred into Leona.
Moreover, Kindred also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a terribly counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kindred
Additional Information for Kindred Players
How We Calculated Our Kindred vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred on average gets a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kindred versus Leona build consist of Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better countering Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Leona as Kindred, Kindred players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kindred vs Leona matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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