Leona vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Leona
based on 2,691 Leona vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Leona vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Leona against Illaoi matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Illaoi. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Leona or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when facing off against Illaoi, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Leona also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Illaoi matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Illaoi. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often racks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who typically don't take 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Leona versus Illaoi build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Illaoi than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Illaoi with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Illaoi as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Illaoi face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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