Leona with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Leona and Jarvan IV
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Leona Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Leona with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Leona Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Leona in LoL
The Leona Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jarvan IV helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Jarvan IV, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may signal that Jarvan IV does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Jarvan IV on the same side, 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 Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Jarvan IV on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Jarvan IV
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Is Leona better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Jarvan IV is a below average companion for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 50.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Leona and Jarvan IV that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be careful when enlisting Jarvan IV comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Leona and Jarvan IV together, you may not be granting your other teammates much magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Jarvan IV teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to synergize with Jarvan IV during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Leona and Jarvan IV synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Jarvan IV than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Jarvan IV with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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