Leona vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Leona
based on 3,105 Leona vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Leona vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Leona versus Soraka counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka..
Leona usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Soraka
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Who is Better, Leona or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Soraka, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Soraka, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Soraka.
Moreover, Leona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Soraka matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is an above average counter to Soraka. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Leona versus Soraka build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 52.8% battling Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Soraka 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Leona vs Soraka fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
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