Ahri vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Ahri
based on 4,038 Ahri vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Leona
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Ahri vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Ahri vs. Leona matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Ahri often has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Leona
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Who is Better, Ahri or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 45.5% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Ahri does have a much lower win rate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Leona.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a terribly counter to Leona. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often picks up much more CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Ahri versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Leona as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Leona fights, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.5% winrate overall.
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