Leona vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Leona
based on 2,472 Leona vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Akshan
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Leona vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Leona against Akshan counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akshan. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Akshan. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Akshan
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Who is Better, Leona or Akshan?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Akshan, with a 56.0% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a fantastic counter to Akshan.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Akshan, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Akshan.
Additionally, Leona also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akshan. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Akshan matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Akshan. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often gets a lot less CS relative to Akshan. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Leona versus Akshan build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting Akshan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 56.0% battling Akshan with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Akshan as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Leona vs Akshan fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 56.0% winrate overall.
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