Leona with Alistar
How to Synergize Leona and Alistar
based on 133 Leona with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Leona with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Leona Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Leona in LoL
The Leona Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Leona perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Alistar, she gets a clear improvement in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Alistar provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Alistar on the same team, she usually takes more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect synergy for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, Alistar is a terrible companion for Leona. By being on the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -5.6% to 46.6%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Leona and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be careful when finding Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to synergize with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Leona and Alistar synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Leona and Alistar pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Alistar with Leona are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.