Akali vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Akali
based on 8,302 Akali vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Leona
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Akali vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Akali in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Akali versus Leona counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Leona. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Leona
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Who is Better, Akali or Leona?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Akali does have a lower win rate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akali is a bad counter for Leona. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali usually gets much more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Akali versus Leona build include Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Leona than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Leona as Akali, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Akali vs Leona counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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