Leona vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Leona
based on 3,110 Leona vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Leona vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some important Leona versus Syndra counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Syndra. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Syndra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Syndra
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Who is Better, Leona or Syndra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Syndra, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Syndra.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Syndra, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Syndra.
Additionally, Leona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Syndra 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 teammates during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter to Syndra. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Syndra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually accumulates a lot less CS as Syndra. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Syndra build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Syndra than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Syndra with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Syndra 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Leona vs Syndra clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% win rate overall.
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