Warwick vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Warwick
based on 6,302 Warwick vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Leona
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Warwick against Leona matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Warwick normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Leona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Leona
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Who is Better, Warwick or Leona?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually loses when taking on Leona, with a 44.7% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Warwick does have a much lower win rate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Warwick into Leona.
Additionally, Warwick has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Warwick is a terribly counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick on average racks up more CS as Leona. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Warwick versus Leona build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average winrate of 44.7% when countering Leona with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Leona as Warwick, Warwick players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Warwick vs Leona matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
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