Leona vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Leona
based on 5,013 Leona vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Darius
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.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Leona vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Leona against Darius counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Darius. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Darius. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Darius
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Who is Better, Leona or Darius?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Darius, with a 53.6% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter to Darius.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Darius.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Darius 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Darius. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Leona versus Darius build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Darius than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Darius as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Leona vs Darius matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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