Sylas vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Sylas
based on 4,895 Sylas vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Leona
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Sylas versus Leona counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Sylas normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Leona
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Who is Better, Sylas or Leona?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sylas into Leona.
Furthermore, Sylas 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 isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sylas is a trash counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas often picks up much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Sylas versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Leona with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Leona as Sylas, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Sylas vs Leona face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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