Leona with Gwen
How to Synergize Leona and Gwen
based on 3,102 Leona with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Leona with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Leona Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Leona in LoL
The Leona Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Gwen, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This may signal that Gwen does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Gwen on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Leona that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Gwen is a below average teammate for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Leona and Gwen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players must be careful when lining up Gwen teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Leona and Gwen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona to work well with Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Leona and Gwen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing alongside Gwen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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