Leona vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Leona
based on 1,191 Leona vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Leona vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Leona against Kalista counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Kalista
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Who is Better, Leona or Kalista?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 55.2% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Kalista.
Additionally, Leona has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Kalista 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 Kalista. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Kalista build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 55.2% battling Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kalista as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Leona vs Kalista LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.2% winrate overall.
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