Leona vs Corki
How to Beat Corki as Leona
based on 1,430 Leona vs Corki matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Corki Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Corki Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Corki as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Corki
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 Corki
Watch out for Corki's Missile Barrage. They deal splash damage, so you can get hit even when hiding behind minions.
Corki is vulnerable after he uses his Valkyrie or Special Delivery, so try switching focus to him if he uses them to enter a fight.
Leona vs Corki Counter Stats
How to Counter Corki with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Leona versus Corki counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Corki’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Corki. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Corki. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Corki
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Who is Better, Leona or Corki?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Corki, with a 53.7% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a great counter to Corki.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Corki, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Corki.
Moreover, Leona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Corki. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Corki matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Corki. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Corki.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Corki during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Corki. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Corki build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Corki than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 53.7% battling Corki with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Corki as Leona, Leona players should equip 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 combinations players used for Leona vs Corki matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.7% win rate overall.
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