Leona with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Leona and Caitlyn
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Leona Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Leona with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
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.
Leona Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Leona in LoL
The Leona Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Caitlyn helps Leona perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Caitlyn, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Caitlyn on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Caitlyn
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Is Leona better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a not very good ally for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she drops their win rate by -2.0% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Leona and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players should be careful when enlisting Caitlyn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Leona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Caitlyn together, you may not be granting your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to pair well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Leona and Caitlyn synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Caitlyn with Leona are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.