Leona with Brand
How to Synergize Leona and Brand
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Leona Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Brand
Tips for Playing as Leona with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Leona Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Leona in LoL
The Leona Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Leona perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Brand, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This could signal that Brand provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Brand on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top companion for Leona that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Brand is a good companion for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 54.9%. This signals that there is a good bond between Leona and Brand that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Brand teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Leona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Leona and Brand together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to synergize with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona and Brand synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 54.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Brand with Leona are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.