Leona with Kassadin
How to Synergize Leona and Kassadin
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Leona Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Leona Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kassadin helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Kassadin, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This could indicate that Kassadin does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kassadin.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Kassadin on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Kassadin
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Leona that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a decent teammate for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 54.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Leona and Kassadin that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you must be very careful when arranging Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Leona and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to pair well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Kassadin synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 54.3% when playing alongside Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.3% win rate overall.
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