Kayle with Leona
How to Synergize Kayle and Leona
based on 4,419 Kayle with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Leona Synergy Summary
Best Kayle vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Leona
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Leona
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Kayle perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayle is an ally to Leona, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Leona does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played alongside Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Kayle plays with Leona on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Kayle during teamfights.
Synergies between Kayle and Leona
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top companion for Kayle that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Leona is a good ally for Kayle. By playing on the same team as Kayle, she increases their win rate by 1.9% to 53.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Kayle and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Kayle. That means Kayle players don't need to be careful when lining up Leona teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Kayle and Leona together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayle to work well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Kayle and Leona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Leona than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 53.2% when playing alongside Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kayle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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