Leona vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Leona
based on 8,302 Leona vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Leona vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Leona versus Akali counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Akali. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Akali. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Akali
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Who is Better, Leona or Akali?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Akali, with a 53.0% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter to Akali.
While Leona does have a higher win rate than Akali, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Akali.
Furthermore, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Akali matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Leona is a good counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average racks up a lot less CS as Akali. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Leona versus Akali build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Akali than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.0% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Akali as Leona, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Leona vs Akali counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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