Leona vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Leona
based on 951 Leona vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Leona vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Leona vs. Elise matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champs. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Elise. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Elise
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Who is Better, Leona or Elise?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Elise, with a 56.2% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Elise.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate than Elise, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Elise.
Moreover, Leona also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Elise matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Elise. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Leona versus Elise build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Elise than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 56.2% when countering Elise with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Elise as Leona, you 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 players picked for Leona vs Elise counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.2% win rate overall.
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