Leona vs Dr. Mundo
How to Beat Dr. Mundo as Leona
based on 2,908 Leona vs Dr. Mundo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Dr. Mundo Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Dr. Mundo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Dr. Mundo as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Dr. Mundo
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 Dr. Mundo
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
Leona vs Dr. Mundo Counter Stats
How to Counter Dr. Mundo with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Leona versus Dr. Mundo counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Dr. Mundo. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Dr. Mundo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Dr. Mundo
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Who is Better, Leona or Dr. Mundo?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Dr. Mundo, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter for Dr. Mundo.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Dr. Mundo, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Dr. Mundo.
Moreover, Leona also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Dr. Mundo 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 late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Dr. Mundo. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Dr. Mundo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Dr. Mundo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Dr. Mundo. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona versus Dr. Mundo build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Dr. Mundo than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Dr. Mundo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Dr. Mundo as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Leona vs Dr. Mundo battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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