Sivir vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Sivir
based on 2,188 Sivir vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sivir vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Sivir vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Sivir
Tips for Playing as Sivir against Leona
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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.
Sivir vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Sivir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some valuable Sivir versus Leona matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Sivir usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sivir and Leona
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Who is Better, Sivir or Leona?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sivir usually fairs equally well when playing against Leona, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Sivir makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Sivir does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when on opposite teams, Sivir also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sivir into Leona.
Additionally, Sivir has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sivir is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sivir against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sivir 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir on average accumulates much more CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sivir versus Leona build include Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Leona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average win rate of 49.0% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Leona as Sivir, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Sivir vs Leona battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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