Leona vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Leona
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Leona vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Vayne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Leona vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Leona vs. Vayne matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Vayne. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vayne. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Vayne
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Who is Better, Leona or Vayne?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Vayne, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Leona makes an ok counter for Vayne.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Vayne, when facing one another, Leona also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Vayne.
Additionally, Leona has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Vayne matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Vayne. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Vayne.
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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 Vayne during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up a lot less CS as Vayne. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Leona versus Vayne build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Vayne than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.9% battling Vayne with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Vayne 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 players picked for Leona vs Vayne battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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