Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Tryndamere versus Leona matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Tryndamere usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tryndamere usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Tryndamere makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Tryndamere does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Tryndamere also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Tryndamere into Leona.
Furthermore, Tryndamere also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tryndamere vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Tryndamere is a bad counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tryndamere against Leona.
If you would like to truly master Tryndamere in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere most often racks up much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Tryndamere versus Leona build consist of Statikk Shiv, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Tryndamere combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tryndamere had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Leona as Tryndamere, Tryndamere players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Tryndamere vs Leona face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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