Leona with Kalista
How to Synergize Leona and Kalista
based on 1,991 Leona with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
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.
Leona Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kalista helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Kalista, she gets a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Kalista helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Kalista on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Kalista on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Kalista
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Kalista is a very bad companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, she drops their win rate by -3.2% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Leona and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you must be very careful when arranging Kalista comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Leona and Kalista together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to pair well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Leona and Kalista synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Kalista than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kalista with Leona are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.