Leona vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Leona
based on 4,144 Leona vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Leona vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Leona versus Draven counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Draven. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Draven
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Who is Better, Leona or Draven?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Draven, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Draven.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Draven, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Draven.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Draven matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter to Draven. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona to counter Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Draven. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, 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 need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Leona versus Draven build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Draven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.9% battling Draven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Draven as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs Draven battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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