Leona vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Leona
based on 2,892 Leona vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Leona vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Leona versus Gwen matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gwen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Gwen
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Who is Better, Leona or Gwen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Gwen, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a great counter for Gwen.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Gwen.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Gwen 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Gwen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Gwen during both the lane 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 presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Gwen. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Leona versus Gwen build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Gwen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when countering Gwen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Gwen 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. Out of all the runes players used for Leona vs Gwen clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.0% win rate overall.
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