Renekton vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Renekton
based on 2,235 Renekton vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Renekton vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Renekton vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Renekton
Tips for Playing as Renekton against Leona
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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.
Renekton vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Renekton in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several strategic Renekton versus Leona matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Renekton normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Renekton and Leona
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Who is Better, Renekton or Leona?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Renekton usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Renekton does have a lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Renekton also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Renekton into Leona.
Additionally, Renekton also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Renekton is a trash counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Renekton to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton usually accumulates much more CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Renekton versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Renekton incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Leona as Renekton, Renekton players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Renekton vs Leona counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Renekton are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.