Leona vs Twitch
How to Beat Twitch as Leona
based on 5,276 Leona vs Twitch matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Twitch Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Twitch Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Twitch as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Twitch
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 Twitch
Spell Shields won't block the damage from Deadly Venom, but they will block the effects Twitch can trigger with it.
If you suspect Twitch has left the lane, let your teammates know that Twitch is ''MIA.''
Twitch is fragile. Work with teammates to focus on him when you're able to catch him out of Camouflage.
Leona vs Twitch Counter Stats
How to Counter Twitch with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several critical Leona vs. Twitch counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Twitch’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Twitch. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Twitch. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Twitch
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Who is Better, Leona or Twitch?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Twitch, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter for Twitch.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Twitch, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Twitch.
Furthermore, Leona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Twitch. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Twitch matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter for Twitch. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Twitch.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona to counter Twitch 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to Twitch. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Twitch build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Twitch than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Twitch with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Twitch as Leona, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Twitch LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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