Leona vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Leona
based on 6,591 Leona vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Aatrox
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 Win Against Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Leona vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Leona vs. Aatrox counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aatrox. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Leona or Aatrox?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Aatrox, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Aatrox.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Aatrox.
Furthermore, Leona has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Aatrox matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Aatrox. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to counter Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Leona versus Aatrox build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Aatrox than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against Aatrox with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Aatrox as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Leona vs Aatrox LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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