Elise vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Elise
based on 951 Elise vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Leona
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Elise vs. Leona matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Elise typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Leona
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Who is Better, Elise or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 43.8% win rate. As a result, Elise makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Elise does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Elise into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Elise is a terribly counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Elise versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 43.8% when countering Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Leona as Elise, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Elise vs Leona counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.8% winrate overall.
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