Leona with Darius
How to Synergize Leona and Darius
based on 4,608 Leona with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Darius
Tips for Playing as Leona with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Leona Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Leona in LoL
The Leona Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Darius, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Darius provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Darius 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 synergisticly with Darius.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Darius on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Darius?
There is no one best champion pairing for Leona that will always be her best ally. However, Darius is a very typical ally for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 51.3%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Leona and Darius that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be very careful when finding Darius teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Leona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Leona and Darius together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to pair well with Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Leona and Darius synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing alongside Darius with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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