Leona vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Leona
based on 8,523 Leona vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Brand
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.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Leona vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Leona against Brand matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Brand. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Brand
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Who is Better, Leona or Brand?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when playing against Brand, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Leona makes an ok counter to Brand.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Brand.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Brand matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often racks up less CS compared to Brand. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Leona versus Brand build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Brand than with many other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Brand as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Brand matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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