Jarvan IV vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Jarvan IV
based on 1,943 Jarvan IV vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jarvan IV vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV against Leona
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Jarvan IV in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Jarvan IV against Leona matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Jarvan IV typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jarvan IV and Leona
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Who is Better, Jarvan IV or Leona?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jarvan IV usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Jarvan IV makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Jarvan IV does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Jarvan IV also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Jarvan IV into Leona.
Moreover, Jarvan IV also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV 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 teammates during team fights.
Jarvan IV is a trash counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jarvan IV against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Leona. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Jarvan IV versus Leona build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average winrate of 46.5% battling Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Leona as Jarvan IV, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Jarvan IV vs Leona battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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