Master Yi with Leona
How to Synergize Master Yi and Leona
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Master Yi Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Leona
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Leona
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
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.
Master Yi Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Master Yi sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Master Yi perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Master Yi is paired with Leona, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Leona provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played alongside Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Leona on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Master Yi during teamfights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Leona
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect synergy for Master Yi that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Leona is a decent companion for Master Yi. By being on the same side as Master Yi, she increases their win rate by 2.6% to 53.2%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Master Yi and Leona that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Master Yi. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Leona allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Master Yi and Leona together, you may not be providing your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Master Yi to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Master Yi and Leona synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Death's Dance. When Master Yi incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Master Yi had an average winrate of 53.2% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Master Yi players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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