Kalista vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Kalista
based on 1,191 Kalista vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kalista vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Kalista vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kalista against Leona
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack 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.
Kalista vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Kalista in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Kalista vs. Leona counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kalista often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kalista and Leona
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Who is Better, Kalista or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kalista usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 44.8% win rate. Thus, Kalista makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Kalista does have a much lower win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Kalista also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kalista into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kalista also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kalista 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.
Kalista is a garbage counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kalista 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista most often picks up much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kalista versus Leona build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 44.8% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Leona as Kalista, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Kalista vs Leona fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.8% winrate overall.
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