Leona with Yasuo
How to Synergize Leona and Yasuo
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Leona Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Leona with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Leona Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Leona in LoL
The Leona Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Leona perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Yasuo, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This may indicate that Yasuo supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Yasuo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Yasuo on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Yasuo does a poor job of protecting Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Yasuo
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Is Leona better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal ally for Leona that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a relatively poor teammate for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Leona and Yasuo that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you must be careful when enlisting Yasuo allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Leona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Leona and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 synergize with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Yasuo synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Yasuo than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Yasuo with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona and Yasuo pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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