Leona with Illaoi
How to Synergize Leona and Illaoi
based on 2,451 Leona with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Illaoi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Leona with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Leona Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Leona in LoL
The Leona Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Illaoi, she sees a little drop in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Illaoi does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Illaoi 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 alongside Illaoi.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Illaoi on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Illaoi
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Is Leona better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no top companion for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Illaoi is a pretty good companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she improves their win rate by 1.4% to 53.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Leona and Illaoi that results in them performing better together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be careful when lining up Illaoi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Illaoi together, you probably will not be giving your team much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Illaoi ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to synergize with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Leona and Illaoi synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when playing alongside Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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