Leona vs Rell
How to Beat Rell as Leona
based on 1,940 Leona vs Rell matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Rell Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Rell Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rell as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Rell
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 Rell Counter Stats
How to Counter Rell with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several vital Leona vs. Rell counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rell..
Leona often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Rell. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Rell
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Who is Better, Leona or Rell?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Rell, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter for Rell.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate than Rell, when facing one another, Leona also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Rell.
Moreover, Leona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Rell matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Rell. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Rell.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Rell during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Rell. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Leona versus Rell build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Rell than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 54.5% battling Rell with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Rell as Leona, you 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 that we analyzed for Leona vs Rell matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.5% win rate overall.
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