Lissandra vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Lissandra
based on 1,693 Lissandra vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Leona
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Lissandra vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Lissandra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Lissandra versus Leona counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Lissandra often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Leona
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually fairs equally well when facing off against Leona, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Lissandra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Lissandra into Leona.
Furthermore, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Lissandra is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to counter Leona during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra usually racks up much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Lissandra versus Leona build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Leona than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average win rate of 49.9% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Leona as Lissandra, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Lissandra vs Leona counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Lissandra are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.