Poppy with Leona
How to Synergize Poppy and Leona
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Poppy Leona Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Leona
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Leona
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
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.
Poppy Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Poppy perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is an ally to Leona, she observes a little increase in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Leona supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Leona on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Leona does a poor job of covering Poppy in team fights.
Synergies between Poppy and Leona
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect ally for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Leona is a pretty good companion for Poppy. By playing on the same team as Poppy, she improves their win rate by 2.3% to 52.0%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Poppy and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Leona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Poppy and Leona together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy in order to synergize with Leona during both the laning 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Poppy and Leona synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing alongside Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Poppy players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Leona with Poppy are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.