Leona with Zeri
How to Synergize Leona and Zeri
based on 1,066 Leona with Zeri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Zeri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Zeri
Tips for Playing as Leona with Zeri
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.
Leona Zeri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zeri as Leona in LoL
The Leona Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zeri helps Leona perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Zeri, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change may signal that Zeri provides protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Zeri.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Zeri on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zeri does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Zeri?
There is no ideal companion for Leona that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Zeri is a terrible teammate for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, they lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 48.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Leona and Zeri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zeri has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be careful when lining up Zeri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Leona and Zeri together, you may not be providing your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Zeri ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Zeri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Leona and Zeri synergy build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Zeri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take 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 sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zeri with Leona are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.