Leona vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Leona
based on 3,950 Leona vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Leona vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some vital Leona against Lee Sin counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lee Sin. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Leona or Lee Sin?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Lee Sin.
Additionally, Leona also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Lee Sin 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 teammates during teamfights.
Leona is a great counter to Lee Sin. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Leona versus Lee Sin build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Lee Sin than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 54.6% battling Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Lee Sin 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Leona vs Lee Sin fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.6% win rate overall.
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