Leona vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Leona
based on 1,693 Leona vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Leona vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some significant Leona against Lissandra counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lissandra. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Leona or Lissandra?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when playing against Lissandra, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Leona makes an ok counter to Lissandra.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Lissandra.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Lissandra matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a lot less CS as Lissandra. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, 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, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Leona versus Lissandra build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 50.1% when countering Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Lissandra as Leona, Leona players should take 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 players chose for Leona vs Lissandra counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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