Caitlyn with Leona
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Leona
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Caitlyn Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Leona
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Leona
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Caitlyn Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Caitlyn perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Leona, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Leona provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Leona on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best champion pairing for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Leona is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, she raises their win rate by 0.9% to 50.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Leona that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Leona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Caitlyn and Leona together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Caitlyn and Leona synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Caitlyn included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Leona with Caitlyn are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.