Leona vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Leona
based on 4,465 Leona vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Leona vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Leona versus Rengar matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rengar. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Rengar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Rengar
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Who is Better, Leona or Rengar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Rengar, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter to Rengar.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Rengar, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Rengar.
Furthermore, Leona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Rengar 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 allies during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Rengar. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Rengar 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Rengar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Leona versus Rengar build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Rengar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 54.6% when playing against Rengar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rengar as Leona, Leona players should take 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 Rengar LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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