Heimerdinger vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Heimerdinger
based on 2,156 Heimerdinger vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Leona
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Heimerdinger against Leona counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona..
Heimerdinger usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Leona
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when taking on Leona, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter for Leona.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Leonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Heimerdinger has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Heimerdinger is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger on average gets much more CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Leona build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Leona than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Leona as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Leona counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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