Leona with K'Sante
How to Synergize Leona and K'Sante
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Leona K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Leona with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Leona K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Leona in LoL
The Leona K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that K'Sante helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with K'Sante, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This could indicate that K'Sante helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Leona plays with K'Sante on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that K'Sante does a poor job of covering Leona in teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and K'Sante
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Is Leona better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no one best champion pairing for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, K'Sante is a terrible companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, they lowers their win rate by -5.3% to 46.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Leona and K'Sante that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you should be careful when arranging K'Sante teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Leona players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Leona and K'Sante together, you probably will not be granting your team very much AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your K'Sante ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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 to work well with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Leona and K'Sante synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with K'Sante than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to K'Sante with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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