Leona with Varus
How to Synergize Leona and Varus
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Leona Varus Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Varus
Tips for Playing as Leona with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Leona Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Leona in LoL
The Leona Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Leona perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Varus, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Varus provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Varus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Varus on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Varus
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Is Leona better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect companion for Leona that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, Varus is a not very good teammate for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Leona and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Varus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Leona and Varus together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Leona and Varus synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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