Leona vs Fiddlesticks
How to Beat Fiddlesticks as Leona
based on 2,269 Leona vs Fiddlesticks matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Fiddlesticks Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Fiddlesticks Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fiddlesticks as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Fiddlesticks
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.
Leona vs Fiddlesticks Counter Stats
How to Counter Fiddlesticks with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Leona vs. Fiddlesticks matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Fiddlesticks. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Fiddlesticks. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Fiddlesticks
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Who is Better, Leona or Fiddlesticks?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Fiddlesticks, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter to Fiddlesticks.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Fiddlesticks.
Furthermore, Leona also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Fiddlesticks 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Fiddlesticks. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Fiddlesticks.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Fiddlesticks during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Fiddlesticks. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Leona versus Fiddlesticks build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Fiddlesticks than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.4% when playing against Fiddlesticks with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Fiddlesticks 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 players chose for Leona vs Fiddlesticks counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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