Soraka vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Soraka
based on 3,105 Soraka vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Leona
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Soraka vs. Leona matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona..
Soraka normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Leona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Leona
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Who is Better, Soraka or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Soraka does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Soraka also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Soraka into Leona.
Additionally, Soraka also has a great deal of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a bad counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Soraka versus Leona build consist of Redemption, Solstice Sleigh, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Leona than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 47.2% battling Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Leona as Soraka, Soraka players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Soraka vs Leona counters, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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