Volibear vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Volibear
based on 3,024 Volibear vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Volibear vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Volibear vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Volibear
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.
Volibear vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Volibear in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Volibear against Leona counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Volibear usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Volibear and Leona
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Who is Better, Volibear or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Volibear usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Volibear makes a bad counter to Leona.
While Volibear does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when facing one another, Volibear also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Volibear into Leona.
Moreover, Volibear has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Volibear is a garbage counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Volibear against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear on average picks up much more CS compared to Leona. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Volibear versus Leona build consist of Spirit Visage, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Leona than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when playing against Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Leona as Volibear, Volibear players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Volibear vs Leona matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
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