Leona vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Leona
based on 6,302 Leona vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Leona vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Leona against Warwick counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Warwick. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Warwick
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Who is Better, Leona or Warwick?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Warwick, with a 55.3% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a fantastic counter for Warwick.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate compared to Warwick, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Warwick.
Furthermore, Leona also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Warwick 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is a great counter for Warwick. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to counter Warwick during both the laning 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 shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically racks up less CS relative to Warwick. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona versus Warwick build include Frozen Heart, Solstice Sleigh, and Force of Nature. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Warwick than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 55.3% when playing against Warwick with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Warwick as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Leona vs Warwick fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.3% winrate overall.
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