Leona vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Leona
based on 1,720 Leona vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Leona vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Leona versus Jayce counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jayce. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Jayce. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Jayce
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Who is Better, Leona or Jayce?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 54.9% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a great counter to Jayce.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate than Jayce, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Jayce.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Jayce 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 for Jayce. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Jayce 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase 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 Jayce. Champs who on average don't take much CS often 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Leona versus Jayce build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Jayce than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 54.9% when playing against Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Jayce as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Leona vs Jayce counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.9% win rate overall.
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