Yone vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Yone
based on 8,905 Yone vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Yone
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.
Yone vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Yone in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Yone vs. Leona counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Yone typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yone and Leona
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Who is Better, Yone or Leona?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Yone does have a lower win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Yone also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Yone into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yone has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yone vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Yone is a terribly counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yone in order to counter Leona during both the laning 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone most often picks up much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yone versus Leona build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yone boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Leona as Yone, Yone players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Yone vs Leona battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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