Leona vs Yone
How to Beat Yone as Leona
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Leona vs Yone Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Yone as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Yone
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 Yone Counter Stats
How to Counter Yone with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Leona versus Yone matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champs. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yone’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Yone. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Yone. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Leona or Yone?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Yone, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a great counter to Yone.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Yone, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Yone.
Furthermore, Leona has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yone. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Yone 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 teammates during team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Yone. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Yone.
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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 Yone during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a lot less CS compared to Yone. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Leona versus Yone build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Yone than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Yone with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Yone as Leona, you 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 Yone face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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