Leona vs Yuumi
How to Beat Yuumi as Leona
based on 3,210 Leona vs Yuumi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Yuumi Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Yuumi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yuumi as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Yuumi
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.
Leona vs Yuumi Counter Stats
How to Counter Yuumi with Leona in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Leona versus Yuumi counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yuumi..
Leona usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Yuumi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Yuumi
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Who is Better, Leona or Yuumi?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Yuumi, with a 60.6% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a fantastic counter to Yuumi.
While Leona does have a much higher winrate compared to Yuumi, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Yuumi.
Additionally, Leona has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. 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 Yuumi 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 team members during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Yuumi. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Yuumi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to counter Yuumi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona most often picks up more CS compared to Yuumi. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Yuumi build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Yuumi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 60.6% when countering Yuumi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Yuumi as Leona, Leona players 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 builds that we analyzed for Leona vs Yuumi clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 60.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Yuumi as Leona are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.