Nilah vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Nilah
based on 2,417 Nilah vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Nilah
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Nilah vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Nilah in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Nilah versus Leona matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nilah typically has a much larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nilah and Leona
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Who is Better, Nilah or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when facing off against Leona, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Nilah makes a good counter to Leona.
While Nilah does have a higher winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Leonaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Leona matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nilah is a decent counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nilah against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah typically accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nilah versus Leona build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Nilah included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Leona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Leona as Nilah, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nilah vs Leona face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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