Akshan vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Akshan
based on 2,472 Akshan vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Leona
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Akshan against Leona matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Leona
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Who is Better, Akshan or Leona?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 44.0% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Akshan does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akshan into Leona.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a garbage counter to Leona. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often picks up much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akshan versus Leona build include Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better countering Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 44.0% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Leona as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Akshan vs Leona clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
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