Vayne vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Vayne
based on 8,392 Vayne vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Leona
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some important Vayne against Leona matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vayne typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Leona
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Who is Better, Vayne or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when playing against Leona, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Vayne does have a lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne most often accumulates much more CS compared to Leona. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Vayne versus Leona build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Leona as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Vayne vs Leona matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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