Darius with Leona
How to Synergize Darius and Leona
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Darius Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Leona
Tips for Playing as Darius with Leona
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Darius in LoL
The Darius Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Darius perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Leona, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Leona provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Leona on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Leona does a decent job of protecting Darius during team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Leona?
There is no ideal companion for Darius that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a good companion for Darius. By playing on the same side as Darius, she increases their win rate by 2.1% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Darius and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Leona has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means Darius players must be cautious when lining up Leona teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, Darius players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Darius and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius in order to work well with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Darius and Leona synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Darius used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other common builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Darius and Leona pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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