Leona vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Leona
based on 8,230 Leona vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Leona vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Leona vs. Morgana matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Morgana..
Leona usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Morgana. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Morgana
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Who is Better, Leona or Morgana?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually loses when playing against Morgana, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a poor counter to Morgana.
While Leona does have a lower winrate compared to Morgana, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Morgana.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Leona is a somewhat poor counter to Morgana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Morgana during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often gets less CS relative to Morgana. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Leona versus Morgana build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Morgana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Morgana with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Morgana as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Leona vs Morgana matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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