Leona vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Leona
based on 1,291 Leona vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Leona vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Leona against Cassiopeia matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Cassiopeia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Leona or Cassiopeia?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually loses when facing off against Cassiopeia, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a poor counter for Cassiopeia.
While Leona does have a lower win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Leona into Cassiopeia.
Furthermore, Leona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a trash counter for Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually gets a lot less CS as Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Leona versus Cassiopeia build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Cassiopeia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Cassiopeia 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Leona vs Cassiopeia face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
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