Kalista with Leona
How to Synergize Kalista and Leona
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Kalista Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Leona
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Leona
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Leona, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Leona helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Leona.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Leona on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Leona
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect ally for Kalista that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Leona is a decent ally for Kalista. By playing on the same side as Kalista, she raises their win rate by 1.6% to 49.0%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Kalista and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be very careful when finding Leona teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kalista players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Kalista and Leona together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Kalista and Leona synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Kalista players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Leona with Kalista are shown for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.