Leona with Soraka
How to Synergize Leona and Soraka
based on 106 Leona with Soraka pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Leona with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Leona Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Leona in LoL
The Leona Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Soraka helps Leona perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Soraka, she sees a massive increase in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Soraka helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Soraka.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Soraka on the same team, she typically takes much more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Soraka
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Is Leona better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no top champion pairing for Leona that will always be her ideal ally. However, Soraka is a below average companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Leona and Soraka that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Soraka comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Soraka together, you will not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Soraka teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to synergize with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Leona and Soraka synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Soraka than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Soraka with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Leona are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.