Leona vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Leona
based on 14,356 Leona vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Leona vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some critical Leona vs. Lux matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux..
Leona often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Lux. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Lux
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Who is Better, Leona or Lux?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Lux, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Lux.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Leona into Lux.
Furthermore, Leona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Lux matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Leona is an above average counter to Lux. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona typically accumulates less CS relative to Lux. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Leona versus Lux build include Unending Despair, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Lux than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Lux as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs Lux fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lux as Leona are shown for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.