Illaoi with Leona
How to Synergize Illaoi and Leona
based on 2,451 Illaoi with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Leona Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Leona
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Leona
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Illaoi Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Leona, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Leona doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Leona on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Leona
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect synergy for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Leona is a top-tier companion for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, she increases their win rate by 4.0% to 53.6%. This shows that there is an important synergy between Illaoi and Leona that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players don't need to be cautious when finding Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your side very much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to synergize with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Illaoi and Leona synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 53.6% helping carry Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Illaoi and Leona pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.6% winrate overall.
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