Syndra vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Syndra
based on 3,110 Syndra vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Syndra Items
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Guide to Countering Leona as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Leona
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Syndra in LoL
The stats provided here show some critical Syndra against Leona counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Syndra typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Leona
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Syndra or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Syndra does have a lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Syndra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Syndra into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Syndra is a bad counter to Leona. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Syndra
Additional Information for Syndra Players
How We Calculated Our Syndra vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Syndra in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Syndra versus Leona build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Leona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Leona as Syndra, Syndra players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Syndra vs Leona counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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