Leona vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Leona
based on 4,006 Leona vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Leona vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Leona against Kayle counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kayle. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Kayle
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Who is Better, Leona or Kayle?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Kayle, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter to Kayle.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Kayle.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Kayle 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is an above average counter to Kayle. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average accumulates a lot less CS as Kayle. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Leona versus Kayle build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Kayle than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when playing against Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Kayle as Leona, you 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 builds players picked for Leona vs Kayle battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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