Leona vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Leona
based on 3,911 Leona vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Vi Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Vi as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Leona vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Leona versus Vi matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vi. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Vi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Leona or Vi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Vi, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter for Vi.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Vi, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Vi.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Leona vs Vi matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Vi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Vi.
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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 Vi 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Vi. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Leona versus Vi build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Vi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Vi with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Vi as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Leona vs Vi counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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