Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
The stats shown here emphasize some critical Leona against Bel'Veth counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bel'Veth’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bel'Veth. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Bel'Veth. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bel'Veth, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Leona makes an ok counter for Bel'Veth.
While Leona does have a lower winrate than Bel'Veth, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Bel'Veth.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bel'Veth. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Bel'Veth matchups, Bel'Veth is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a somewhat poor counter to Bel'Veth. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Bel'Veth.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Bel'Veth during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Bel'Veth. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Leona versus Bel'Veth build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Bel'Veth than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Bel'Veth with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Bel'Veth as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Leona vs Bel'Veth battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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