Leona with Xayah
How to Synergize Leona and Xayah
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Leona Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Leona with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Leona Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Leona in LoL
The Leona Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xayah helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is paired with Xayah, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Xayah helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Xayah. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xayah.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Xayah on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Leona in team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect companion for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Xayah is a not very good ally for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Leona and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be careful when finding Xayah comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Leona players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Leona and Xayah together, you will not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to work well with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Leona and Xayah synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Xayah than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Leona players 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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