Heimerdinger with Leona
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Leona
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Heimerdinger Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Leona
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Leona
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Leona, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Leona provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Leona on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Leona
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Heimerdinger that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Leona is a pretty good ally for Heimerdinger. By being on the same side as Heimerdinger, she increases their win rate by 1.7% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Heimerdinger and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Leona allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Heimerdinger players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Heimerdinger and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Heimerdinger to work well with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Heimerdinger and Leona synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Leona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Heimerdinger and Leona pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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