Rek'Sai vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Rek'Sai
based on 678 Rek'Sai vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rek'Sai vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai against Leona
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Rek'Sai in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Rek'Sai versus Leona counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rek'Sai may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rek'Sai typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rek'Sai and Leona
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Who is Better, Rek'Sai or Leona?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rek'Sai usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 43.7% win rate. As a result, Rek'Sai makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Rek'Sai does have a much lower win rate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Rek'Sai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rek'Sai into Leona.
Furthermore, Rek'Sai also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rek'Sai vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rek'Sai is a bad counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Rek'Sai against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rek'Sai usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Rek'Sai versus Leona build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average win rate of 43.7% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Leona as Rek'Sai, Rek'Sai players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Rek'Sai vs Leona clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.7% winrate overall.
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