Leona - Stunlocking

Introduction

Hello and welcome to my fourth build on mobafire, one for Leona, the radiant dawn!

This build is focused around gaining maximum CDR, allowing for frequent stuns, which allows you to even stunlock any opponent of your choice. I have stunlocked the other team's carry many times, and finished them off on my own, while my team takes the other 4 people on.

If you try this build and have success / failure, comment and come with feedback!

Pros / Cons

Pros

Cons

Eclipse

Runes

Runes
Greater Mark of Insight 9	Greater Seal of Defense 9	Greater Glyph of Shielding 9	Greater Quintessence of Shielding 3

Masteries

Masteries

4/4

4/4

1/1

1/1

3/3

2/2

4/4

1/1

1/1

1/1

3/3

1/3

3/3

1/1

Summoner's Insight

Expanded Mind

Meditation

Good Hands

Enlightenment

Summoner Spells

My Choices

Heal

Flash

Useable

Ghost

Exhaust

Ignite

Teleport

Not recommended

Clairvoyance

Clarity

Smite

Revive

Surge

Cleanse

Skill Sequence

Cooldown 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7
Damage 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160
Mana cost 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65
Ratios +30% Ability Power
Effect Stuns for 1.25 seconds.

"Leona uses her shield to perform her next autoattack, dealing bonus magic damage and stunning the target."

This is leonas stun that grants her allies a chance to catch up / slow and things like that.



Cooldown 14
Damage 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 / 260
Mana cost 60
Ratios +40% Ability Power
Effect Raises her Armor and Magic Resistance by 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70

"Leona raises her shield to gain Armor and Magic Resistance. When the duration first ends, if there are nearby enemies she will deal magic damage to them and prolong the duration of the effect."

This is leonas farming ability, it allows her to weaken the minions enough to be able to finish them rather quickly, if she has enough mana for it. It is also very good to use for teamfighting to make you even more bulky.


Cooldown 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9
Damage 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220
Mana cost 60
Ratios +40% Ability Power
Effect Throws a blade, on connect with enemy champion, immobilizes them for 0.5 seconds.


"Leona projects a solar image of her sword, dealing magic damage to all enemies in a line. When the image fades, the last enemy champion struck will be briefly immobilized and Leona will dash to them."

Great spell to catch up with someone, however be cautious with the range as it has a low chance to hit on its max range, is it is somewhat shorter than shown. Can be used in conjunction with Shield of Daybreak and Eclipse to make some heavy damage combos.



Cooldown 90 / 75/ 60
Damage 150 / 250 / 350
Mana cost 100 / 150 / 200
Ratios +80% Ability Power
Effect Causes CC based on where on the circle they got hit;
Hit at center - 1.5 second stun
Hit at edges - 90% slow for 1.5 seconds

"Leona calls down a beam of solar energy, dealing damage to enemies in an area. Enemies in the center of the area are stunned, while enemies on the outside are slowed."

Teamfight altering ultimate, it either stuns or slows, so if you can catch everyone in it, you will drasticly change the outcome. Also useable to catch someone far away, or save a teammate.

*Innate*
Effect Leona's damaging spells affect the target with Sunlight for 3.5 seconds. When allied champions deal damage to those targets, they consume the Sunlight debuff to deal additional magic damage.

The skill order is as follows;

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Zenith Blade

Shield of Daybreak

Eclipse

Zenith Blade

Shield of Daybreak

Eclipse

Zenith Blade

Shield of Daybreak

Solar Flare

Items

I start with Doran's Shield most of the time for the tank stats it gives.

Then my core items is usually like this.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity - Cdr.
Frozen Heart - Heavy armor, cdr, mana and -%as aura.
Force of Nature - Heavy magic resist and regen.
Warmog's Armor - Heavy Health item and regen.

These items allow me to stay quite durable to most damage with a quite high health maximum. This also allows me to have maximum CDR, letting me stun very often and even stunlock enemies.

Balanced team

Banshee's Veil

Trinity Force

Guardian Angel

Atma's Impaler

Attack Damage heavy

Randuin's Omen

Trinity Force

Thornmail

Ability Power heavy

Banshee's Veil

Force of Nature

Abyssal Scepter

Farming

How do you farm? It's simple, you farm with Eclipse, at high ranks, that along with Zenith Blade will kill the minions, or leave them at very low amounts. Yet, Eclipse is better to farm with, as it is an aoe.

However, when do you farm? If you lane solo, farm as much as possible, if you lane with a carry, try to leave out most for your carry, but if they have a hard time getting the minions, take them as well. It's better for your team if both your carry and you get farm instead or your carry getting same farm and you dont get it.

Team Work

The last thing is, how do you help your team as Leona in teamfights?

The answer is simple, you can choose from many things:

1. You engage their whole team and try to shut down as many as possible.
2. You engage their carry and shut them down completely with repeated stuns.

When retreating, you can do the following:

1. Use your ultimate to ensure the escape of your team, preferably yourself too.
2. Sacrifice yourself to deal as much damage as possible and let your team escape. (Last Resort)

When chasing, you can do the following:

1. use the Eclipse, followed by Zenith Blade and Shield of Daybreak combo to catch up.
2. use the Eclipse, followed by Zenith Blade, Shield of Daybreak and Solar Flare combo to catch up.
3. Don't chase

Summary

I hope you read through this, to learn how Leona works, and come with feedback as to how it works etc. it's always welcome! Hope you have success! :)

''The sun's rays reach all of Runeterra, so too must the image of its champion.''
-Leona