Rengar vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Rengar
based on 4,465 Rengar vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Leona
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Rengar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Rengar versus Leona counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between these two champions. As an example, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Rengar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Leona. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Leona
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Who is Better, Rengar or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rengar usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Rengar makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Rengar does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Rengar into Leonaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rengar also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rengar is a terribly counter for Leona. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Rengar
Additional Information for Rengar Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Rengar 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 suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Leona. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Rengar versus Leona build include Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Rengar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Leona as Rengar, Rengar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Rengar vs Leona matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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