Leona with Kayle
How to Synergize Leona and Kayle
based on 4,419 Leona with Kayle pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Leona Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayle helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Kayle, she sees a little drop in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kayle does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Kayle on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kayle. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kayle.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Kayle on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kayle does a decent job of covering Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Kayle
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Leona that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Kayle is a pretty good companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she raises their win rate by 1.0% to 53.2%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Leona and Kayle that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Kayle has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players must be careful when finding Kayle allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Leona players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Leona and Kayle together, you may not be granting your other allies much attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kayle ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to work well with Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Leona and Kayle synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kayle than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.2% helping carry Kayle with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should use 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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