Yasuo vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Yasuo
based on 9,698 Yasuo vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Leona
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Yasuo in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some significant Yasuo against Leona matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Yasuo usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Leona
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when playing against Leona, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate compared to Leona, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Yasuo into Leonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yasuo has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo 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.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yasuo against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yasuo 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo on average gets much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Yasuo versus Leona build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Leona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 48.7% battling Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Leona as Yasuo, Yasuo players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Yasuo vs Leona fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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