Leona vs Ezreal
How to Beat Ezreal as Leona
based on 8,455 Leona vs Ezreal matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Ezreal Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ezreal as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Ezreal
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 Ezreal
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
Leona vs Ezreal Counter Stats
How to Counter Ezreal with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several valuable Leona versus Ezreal counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ezreal’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ezreal. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Ezreal. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Ezreal
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Who is Better, Leona or Ezreal?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Ezreal, with a 54.3% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a great counter for Ezreal.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Ezreal, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Ezreal.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ezreal. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Ezreal matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Ezreal. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Ezreal.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona to counter Ezreal during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually gets a lot less CS relative to Ezreal. 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona versus Ezreal build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Ezreal than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 54.3% when playing against Ezreal with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Ezreal as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Leona vs Ezreal counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.3% winrate overall.
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