Lux vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Lux
based on 14,356 Lux vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Leona
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable Lux vs. Leona matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Leona..
Lux normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Leona
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Who is Better, Lux or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Lux makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Lux does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lux into Leona.
Moreover, Lux also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lux is a bad counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lux against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux most often accumulates more CS relative to Leona. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lux versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Leona than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Leona as Lux, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Ultimate Hunter, and Cheap Shot runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Lux vs Leona face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Leona as Lux are shown for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.