Naafiri vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Naafiri
based on 1,859 Naafiri vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Leona
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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.
Naafiri vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Naafiri vs. Leona counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Naafiri and Leona
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Naafiri does have a lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Naafiri into Leona.
Additionally, Naafiri has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Naafiri is a trash counter to Leona. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average racks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Naafiri versus Leona build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better against Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Leona as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Leona LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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