Leona with Xerath
How to Synergize Leona and Xerath
based on 2,611 Leona with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Xerath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Leona with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Leona Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Leona in LoL
The Leona Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Xerath, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Xerath provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Xerath on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Xerath
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Is Leona better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Leona that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Xerath is a pretty good teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 53.6%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Leona and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means Leona players should be very careful when lining up Xerath comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Xerath together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Leona to synergize with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona and Xerath synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Xerath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 53.6% helping carry Xerath with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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