Kai'Sa vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kai'Sa
based on 5,848 Kai'Sa vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Leona
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Kai'Sa versus Leona counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between these two champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Leona
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 42.6% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Leona.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Leona. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often picks up much more CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Leona build include Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 42.6% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Leona as Kai'Sa, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Leona LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.6% win rate overall.
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