Lee Sin vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Lee Sin
based on 3,950 Lee Sin vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Leona
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several important Lee Sin vs. Leona matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Leona
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Lee Sin into Leona.
Additionally, Lee Sin also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a terribly counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lee Sin versus Leona build consist of Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Leona as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Lee Sin vs Leona clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.4% winrate overall.
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