Leona with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Leona and Kai'Sa
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Leona Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Leona Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Leona perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This may signal that Kai'Sa does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Kai'Sa 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 Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Kai'Sa
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no top companion for Leona that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 48.6%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Leona and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players need to be very careful when arranging Kai'Sa comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Leona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Kai'Sa together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to work well with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Kai'Sa synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Leona players 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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