Jayce vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Jayce
based on 1,720 Jayce vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Leona
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Jayce against Leona counter stats that may help you realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Jayce often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Leona
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Who is Better, Jayce or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 45.1% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Jayce does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Jayce also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jayce into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Jayce also has almost no 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 Jayce 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a trash counter to Leona. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jayce against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jayce 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 stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce on average accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Jayce versus Leona build include Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Jayce combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Jayce boasted an average win rate of 45.1% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Leona as Jayce, Jayce players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Jayce vs Leona face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.1% win rate overall.
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