Table of Content Welcome to my Leona Guide. Please read through the guide and tell me what you think or how it worked out for you!
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Keep in mind that there will be more changes coming with S4, alot of updating will be done!

+Great Initiation +Great Peeling +Very Tanky

Leona is a natural tank. She can soak up alot of damage and assist her mates. Leona's skills increase the overall damage of your team due to her passive. Her long CC combo can lock down high prioriy targets for a whole teamfight.

Start with 3 Stealth Ward. You can only have up to 3 Stealth Wards placed, including your Stealth Ward, but this will give you the possibility to stay longer and have a better early game coverage.

4 Health Potion which turn into Total Biscuit of Rejuvenation will give you great early lane sustain. Since Leona is a melee champion, these will come in handy!

You can only place 1 Vision Ward per player in a team. It is visible to the enemy, but reveals enemy wards in sight. Place it on spots where your enemies can either not go or are being zoned from.

Stealth Ward lets you place a 60 second Stealth Ward. You can freely use this to gain vision in lane. As a coverage ward for defense against a jungler, this is sadly insufficient.

Targon's Brace

Get this ASAP if you are thinking of extending the laning phase and most importantly if your ADC also picks it up!

This upgrades into a Talisman of Ascension which gives your team a movementspeed buff. It can be used for both chasing and escaping. The active also helps your team to catch up after your initiation.

Locket of the Iron Solari will be picked up by your jungler most of the time. If not feel free to pick it up. It gives a shield to nearby allies, which makes up for Leona's lacking sustain.

Guardian Angel is a great choice. Having it up will drop alot of focus off of you and you will have more space to move.

Armor Choices Randuin's Omen is the first choice armor item. Rush the Giant's Belt when buying this item! Get Sunfire Aegis if you need even more armor and HP, but always buy Randuin's Omen before this! Frozen Heart provides armor, CDR and Mana. The passive is okay, but the stats are not what you are aiming for

Magic Resist Choices Mikael's Blessing is a targetable, buffed Cleanse that can also heal your allies. Pick this up if you need the active, as a magic resist choice it is rather weak! Spectre's Cowl is the basic magic resist items that can build into the 2 bigger ones. The first choice if you are in need for magic resist! Spirit Visage has magic resist, health, CDR and increased heal. It is the best magic resist in the game at the moment. Banshee's Veil blocks a skill. Get this if you need to block something that can lower your efficiency.

Upgrades Mobility Boots are the best for supports. They will help you alot moving around the map and ward! Mercury's Treads are the most popular boots in League of Legends. It is the only viable tenacity item you can get on Leona and gives magic resist. Ninja Tabi are a niche pick. You only take these if you are really against a team with zero magic damage and no hard CC.

Enchantments Homeguard will give you a speedboost if you are in your fountain and out of battle for 8 seconds. You will move back into lane way faster with these. Captain will give allies a movementspeed boost when they are moving towards you. This can speed up the followup after your initiation! Alacrity is the most egoistic enchantment. 15 Movementspeed will not do much for your team. Distortion reduces the cooldown of Flash. Even less cooldown on Flash will always help. If you find yourself comfortable with these, feel free to take them.

Passive

Sunlight applies a debuff on all enemies hit by any skill of Leona. If anyone else in your team, excluding Leona, attack the same target, the Sunlight debuff will explode and deal additional magic damage.

Q

Shield of Daybreak makes your next basic attack stun the target. Look into the Skill Combo section to learn more!

W

Eclipse grants you bonus armor and magic resist for 3 seconds. After the 3 seconds are over, it will explode and deal damage to nearby enemies. If you hit anything with the explosion the duration will be extended by another 3 seconds!

E

Zenith Blade is a skillshot that will pull yourself behind the last hit target. Keep that in mind to avoid initiations you did not want!

R

Solar Flare can be used as an alternative initation instead of Zenith Blade. The targets in the center will be stunned, the ones around the center will be slowed. Solar Flare also grants vision in the aera it was used.

Maxing Eclipse first is the most efficient way to spent your skill points.
Due to the extra armor and megic resist plus the damage and the slow you can easily win trades in lanes. None of the other 2 skills can live up to Eclipse in lane.

After that Shield of Daybreak wil be maxed, the cooldown will be decreased which allows you to stun more often in a fight.

Zenith Blade only has its use for initiation and making plays. The damage is very low and the aoe small.
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LOGO The early game is all about getting an advantage on farm and money.
Try to utilize every Relic Shield stack and push the very first wave to their tower. At this point most junglers will not be ready to gank, yet.
By pushing the first wave to the enemy tower you will be level 2 before them, trading now will result in a heavy win for your lane and basically win the lane. The fierst Tier 3 towers are starting to fall. Gain control over dragon and keep up your 3/3 wards on the map.
Since you cannot spam wards, stay with your ADC and get more money with Targon's Brace.
Little skirmishes will break out, use your vision wisely to win these. Due to your gold income with Face of the Mountain, you are pretty much one of the tankiest people in the game now.
Your Eclipse scales with your maximum armor and magic resist, making it incredibly strong lategame.
Your focus now should be:
Catch enemies that are out of position > Peel and Protect your ADC > Initiate

If your team does not have another main initatior, it is your job. In that case, initiate a fight with one of the combos in the combo section above and then back off to peel and protect your ADC!
You are only able to put up 3 Stealth Ward and 1 Vision Ward.
Here is a map of possible locations. The limited amount of wards force you to use them according to the situation. Ask your team to use their ward-limit aswell to cover as much as possible: Depending on the situation you might have to sacrifice vision for vision on some other spot.

Here are some exmaples that show the vision given by wards in the same spot but with different placement (click on the picturs for a bigger size):





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Difficulty: Easy Spoiler: Click to view You are a counter to this Champion. Whenever he hooks you, you counter initiate on his ADC or him. To add more pressure on him as a natural counter, tell your ADC to push the lane. This might sound dumb, but a Blitzcrank without any control over the bottom-lane cannot land any good hooks, as your minions will always be pushing and blocking a wide area, preventhing him from taking action. Of course this also makes your bottomlane vulnerable to ganks and you are running into the risk of getting grabbed under tower.

Difficulty: Easy Spoiler: Click to view He is similar to Blitzcrank. You can counter initatie everytime he tries to take action. But be aware of his Flay, since it can stop your Zenith Blade. The only way he can do something against you is his range, he has a 475 auto-attack range which makes it easier for him to harrass you early on. Do not let that happen and try to avoid losing HP for no reason.

Difficulty: Medium Spoiler: Click to view Her Whimsy can turn you into a squirrel while you are flying towards them with Zenith Blade. But keep in mind that it will not stop you form landing onto your target, where you can continue your combo. However, her Wild Growth can stop your advance with Zenith Blade. Especially her early game is stronger than yours. The range with Pix, Faerie Companion and Glitterlance will keep you back and sometimes even low on health. But if you can turn the tides and punish Lulu for overextending while harrassing, the lane becomes yours.

Difficulty: Easy Spoiler: Click to view Sona has one of the lowest base armor and the lowest base HP in game. She can do nothing against your engages pre-6 and even afterwards she will most likely miss you with her Crescendo, since Zenith Blade places you at the last target hit and behind the target. You can easily use Sona as material to feed your ADC. The only advantage she might have is her range early on. Stay away unless you want to start a fight!

Difficulty: Hard Spoiler: Click to view Alistar is a beefy support with alot if disrupting CC. His Ultimate Unbreakable Will reduces all damage done to him and frees/makes him immune to all sorts of CC. In lane it is hard to engage on him or his ADC due to his Pulverize and Headbutt. After you hit him with Zenith Blade he will Pulverize and then Headbutt you back without you achieving anything. If you hit his ADC with Zenith Blade he will immediately Headbutt> Pulverize combo you and stop the engage. Additionally to his immense counter mechanics he can heal with Triumphant Roar, which means he will outsustain you at some point. To outplay him, I'd suggest to either: - Keep him low on health so he would not dare to jump in - Save your Zenith Blade to bait his CC - Do not use Solar Flare when his CC is up - Do not focus him, unless there is no other possible way

Difficulty: Hard Spoiler: Click to view Janna is a ranged support with the potential to negate Leona's burst with her Eye Of The Storm. She can stop Zenith Blade with Howling Gale and gives her team alot of movementspeed due to her passive Tailwind and even more movementspeed to herself with Zephyr. Her ultimate Monsoon resets any aggressions towards her team and misplaces you due to the push-away. When your Zenith Blade is on cooldown, Janna will easily kite you with Zephyr and Howling Gale. She can stop your engage with Solar Flare by simply using Monsoon. This can even put you into a dangerous spot if you used Zenith Blade, since you might be pushed into the enemy tower and away from your ADC. To win the lane against her: - Bait her Howling Gale by using Shield of Daybreak and just running towards her, then dodge it and engage with Zenith Blade afterwards. - Janna is a squishy champion, her Eye Of The Storm gives additional AD to the target she used it on. Burst it down to negate the effect. - Wait for Eye Of The Storm to end before engaging, because it will still be on cooldown and nothing else can negate your burst.

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14.08.2013 / 11:17pm
- Deleted everything about Jungling
- Changed runes and Core items for both Supportbuilds
15.08.2013 / 00:38am
- Added Boots to the Items section
15.10.2013 / 00:22am
- Changed Cheat Sheet Items
- Changed skillorder
- Changed Items-Chapter
- Cleaned the Chapters
- Switched positions in the Combo-Chapter
- Added Blitzcrank, Thresh, Lulu, Sona to the Matchup-Chapter
15.10.2013 / 10:42am
- Added Alistar and Janna to the Matchup-Chapter
27.11.2013 / 05:41pm
- General S4 Update
- Oracle's Lens vs. Warding Totem added
30.11.2013 / 03:00pm
- Overall Guide Update with new formatting
22.01.2014 / 03:00pm
- Updates stopped, not playing Support anymore