Taliyah vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Taliyah
based on 1,534 Taliyah vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Leona
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Taliyah in LoL
The stats provided here show several important Taliyah versus Leona matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Taliyah normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Leona
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Leona?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Leona.
Furthermore, Taliyah has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Leona.
Other Champion Matchups Against Taliyah
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to counter Leona during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah usually accumulates much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Taliyah versus Leona build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average win rate of 48.6% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Leona as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Taliyah vs Leona matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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