Leona vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Leona
based on 2,349 Leona vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Leona vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Leona versus Xayah matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xayah. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Xayah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Xayah
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Who is Better, Leona or Xayah?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Xayah, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter for Xayah.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Xayah, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Xayah.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Xayah 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is a good counter for Xayah. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Xayah.
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How We Calculated Our Leona vs Xayah Build and Stats
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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 Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Xayah. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Leona versus Xayah build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Xayah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Xayah as Leona, you should equip 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 combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs Xayah clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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