Leona vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Leona
based on 4,679 Leona vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Leona vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Leona vs. Katarina counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Katarina. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Katarina
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Who is Better, Leona or Katarina?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a great counter for Katarina.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Katarina.
Additionally, Leona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Katarina matchups, Leona is the better champion 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 to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Katarina.
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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 Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind 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 typically gets a lot less CS as Katarina. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Leona versus Katarina build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 54.6% battling Katarina with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Katarina as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Leona vs Katarina clashes, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.6% win rate overall.
If you want to get Leona vs Katarina tips and counter builds for a a specific skill level, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and guides displayed are computed using all games played with these champions.