Leona with Kayn
How to Synergize Leona and Kayn
based on 6,359 Leona with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Leona with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Leona Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Leona in LoL
The Leona Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Leona perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Kayn, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Kayn supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Kayn on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Kayn does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best ally for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Kayn is a very typical companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 51.7%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Leona and Kayn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Kayn allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Leona and Kayn together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kayn ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona in order to pair well with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Kayn synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kayn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Kayn with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kayn with Leona are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.