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.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stats shown here highlight some critical Leona versus Urgot counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Urgot. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Urgot. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Urgot, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter for Urgot.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Urgot, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Urgot.
Furthermore, Leona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Urgot. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Urgot matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter for Urgot. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Urgot.
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Urgot during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Urgot. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Urgot build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Urgot than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Urgot with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Urgot as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Leona vs Urgot fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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