Tristana vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Tristana
based on 4,847 Tristana vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Leona
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Tristana vs. Leona matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Tristana normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Leona
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Who is Better, Tristana or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Tristana into Leona.
Moreover, Tristana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tristana is a terribly counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Tristana
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average picks up much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tristana versus Leona build consist of Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 46.4% battling Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Leona as Tristana, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Tristana vs Leona matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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