Blitzcrank vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Blitzcrank
based on 6,606 Blitzcrank vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Leona
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Blitzcrank against Leona counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona..
Blitzcrank often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Leona
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Blitzcrank usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Blitzcrank makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Blitzcrank does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Blitzcrank also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Blitzcrank into Leona.
Furthermore, Blitzcrank also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Blitzcrank is a bad counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Blitzcrank against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank most often gets a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Leona build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Blitzcrank included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average win rate of 47.2% battling Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Leona as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Blitzcrank vs Leona battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Blitzcrank are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.