Leona vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Leona
based on 1,534 Leona vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Leona vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Leona vs. Taliyah counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Leona or Taliyah?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Taliyah, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Leona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Taliyah matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Taliyah. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Taliyah.
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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 Taliyah during both the laning 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually picks up a lot less CS as Taliyah. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Taliyah build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Taliyah than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Taliyah as Leona, Leona players should use 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 runes we have analyed for Leona vs Taliyah counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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