Leona's kit is fairly simple like most tank supports so she's fairly easy to pick up and play. She is very strong in the early game, allowing you to STOMP opponents that don't respect her cc. Since she spikes so hard in the Early - Mid Game is can be very easy and linear to perform and win games on her.

Laning

• Leona can start engaging on most lanes around level 2 -4.
• Taking fights at numbers advantages AKA setting your jungler up for an easy gank is the best way to gain a lead.
• Ganks are easily avoided by not standing far up the lane for no reason.
• Stay in lane early game, getting levels is important and you can start to roam once you complete Mobility Boots

Mid Game

• Be near the lane your ADC is farming in, get wards near that area to protect your ADC & Team.
• When you can move with your jungler to gank a lane or start a fight in the Jungle.
  Avoid moving alone or starting fights without allies nearby.
• Carry multiple Control Wards to deny vision from the enemy to easily catch them out.

Late Game

• Late Game Leona can start fights, but if you have other engage on your team such as Malphite, Rammus, etc. You can let them start fights and then disrupt them with your cc.
• Carry multiple Control Wards to deny the enemy vision on baron or around it.
• Don't get caught out, and be in the correct places around the map depending on the game state.

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Leona functions as a Tank that enables her allies to deal damage to targets that she easily locks down with her cc. Compared to other Tank Supports, Leona's cooldowns are short enough for her to cast them multiple times during a fight so long that she survives long enough. Leona can dominate lane and quickly snowball against lesser opponents.

Pros + Great Engage + Low Cooldowns on CC + 3 CC abilities + Strong Early - Mid Game

Cons - Low Mobility - No Escape - Needs follow up on CC - Bad when team is losing

IGNITE Ignite gives you true damage on a short cooldown, enabling you to burst the targets you engage on even harder.

FLASH Flash is standard on most champions, Leona is no exception. Flash is you immediate play making tool. Flash + Shield of Daybreak sets you up to land a full combo, and can immediately catch out the enemy.

These Runes provide Leona with more safety when engaging, and more tankiness overall. They work pretty much automatically. Keeping track of the cooldowns of your Aftershock and Bone Plating will help you take better engages during the laning phase.

Resolve Inspiration

AFTERSHOCK

Aftershock gives Leona more safety & a small amount of damage when engaging, when you CC a target you will temporarily gain bonus Armor & Magic Resist. Track the 35 seconds Cooldown on Aftershock especially during the laning phase so that you can make the best engage / trade decisions. Aftershock will be proc'd automatically when you land cc so most likely when you land a Zenith Blade, you will have bonus resistances when you go in for 2.5 seconds. After the bonus resistances from Aftershock are gone you can use Leona's W Eclipse for more bonus resistances for 6 seconds. Giving you a ton of time with bonus Armor and Magic Resist, helping you last longer in fights.

BONE PLATING

Bone Plating simply blocks damage for free, it's one of the simplest and best runes in the game. Bone Plating helps at all stages of the game, negages poke during the laning phase, helps you survive in fights, and lets you soak more damage in a late game team fight, and it happens automatically super good rune.

CHRYSALIS

+50HP Level 1, is the entire purpose of this rune. Basically every single Solo queue match will be determined off an early fight and having this extra HP can make all the difference, to live off on a couple of HP can prevent a reset, a good gold trade, or a Triumph proc. Leona makes ok use of the bonus Attack Damage gained once it's completed but the AD isn't that impactful.

UNFLINCHING

Unflinching helps during all in's, giving Leona temporary Tenacity and Slow resist helps her stick onto targets better, enabling her to get her Q Shield of Daybreak off. It continues to help when your summoner spells are down but to a lesser degree.

MAGICAL FOOTWEAR

Magical Footwear Gives you boots at 10 minutes for free. Leona doesn't need boots any earlier than this, and saving 300 gold accelerates your build path.

COSMIC INSIGHT

Cosmic Insight 5% CDR for everything is generally useful. Leona gets a good amount of value from the 5% CDR on abilities and Summoner spells allowing her to do more faster. If you are against literally 4-5 AP Champions you could swap Cosmic Insight for Biscuit Delivery

Leona's kit isn't that complicated you can catch enemies out from short range with Q Shield of Daybreak, from medium range with E Zenith Blade, and from long range with ULT Solar Flare. All 3 cc abilities can be combo'd somewhat differently which you can see below:

Basic combo:

Q Shield of Daybreak > E Zenith Blade > R Solar Flare > W Eclipse

This combo will initially stun the target you want to engage on, setting you up for an unmissable E Zenith Blade into R Solar Flare. If done properly the enemy will have no time to react as they will be cc'd for the entire duration.

Catch

E Zenith Blade + R Solar Flare (Cast while you are traveling on Zenith Blade + Q Shield of Daybreak.

When you catch an enemy out with E Zenith Blade most likely during the laning phase, you can cast R Solar Flare while traveling on Zenith Blade. You should practice it before attempting it in a real match. When you land Zenith Blade and buffer Solar Flare the enemy won't have time to respond with Flash if done properly / fast enough.

Highest Damage Combo

It's rarely optimal for Leona to take time out of her cc to deal damage herself, but when it is this is the combo you should look to attempt.

Auto Attack > Q Shield of Daybreak > Auto Attack > W Eclipse > E Zenith Blade > R Solar Flare > Auto Attack > Q Shield of Daybreak > Auto Attack > Auto Attack

This will most likely give the enemy an opportunity to Flash away since they won't be perma cc'd, but if the target you are going for doesn't have Flash or any other escape tools you can get away with dealing extra damage with Auto Attacks.
A lot of Leona's strength in team fights comes from her immediate and unpredictable engage.

Flash + Q Shield of Daybreak + R Solar Flare + Zenith Blade towards where they would flash too / on top of the already stunned target.

This combo requires to to be fairly close to the target you want to engage on, but will leave them very little options to get away. Make sure to ping a lot when attempting a play like this. It will happen quickly and the more you communicate the faster your allies can follow up on your cc.

Quicksilver Sash / Cleanse

Be mindful when spending abilities on a target with

Relic shield gives Leona and his bot lane duo a good amount of sustain in lane, always use the Relic Shield on Cannon or Melee Minions since they will give you the most gold. Relic Shield's execute on minions lets you control the minion wave somewhat.

The Laning Phase is very black and white for Leona. 90% of the time you should effectively be doing nothing, then 10% of the time you should be engaging. The worst thing you can do on Leona is not being able to spot these shifts of playstyle. If you simple press all your buttons on the enemy laners every single time you return to lane it's eventually going to not work out. The same is true for being completely passive. Try and identify when it's best to go in, and when it's not.

Level 1 like most melee supports is mostly passive. Against ranged you want to concede the minion wave or you will likely take to much damage. You can aggressively start in in against some ranged matches for an early trade, but it has to be well executed.

A normal lane should play out in which you concede the first minion wave, let it push into you and your ADC, take 2 melee minions with Relic Shield on the second minion wave, poteitall take a good trade if you and your ADC hit level 2 before the enemy bot lane. If not continue to play passively until level 3-4.

The more levels you have the more damage your abilities do, and the tankier you are, so you really don't have to all in super early in the match, especially if you don't know the limits of Leona. It's fine to go from levels 1 - 6 without doing anything. Any time you engage on the enemy you also present them with an opportunity to turn the play on you or your ADC. So take great fights, not every single one that is presented to you.

Leona's kit accels at fighting early in the match minutes 0:00 - about 22:00. She spikes very hard in the early game and has fairly low cooldowns compared to other Tank Support Champions, allowing her to have more impact during fights by getting multiple stuns.

As you go in you will proc Aftershock temporarily making you very tanky, once that wears off you will start taking more damage simply because you don't have the bonus Armor and Magic resist it grants, so early game Aftershocks cooldown is very important you and should play around it with your engages.

As a cc support champion you effectiveness is intertwined with your allies ability to deal damage or follow up on your cc. Keep your eyes on the enemy to punish them, but also keep tabs on your allies. If your ADC is at 20% health during the laning phase and you all in the enemy bot lane who are both at 100% health, you lose. Avoiding doing obviously bad players like that.

The best version of this is you observing what camp your jungler is on, seeing that he is pathing bot side, then positioning yourself to cc the enemy right as your jungler is walking into your lane.

Mid game is when multiple towers go down on the map, or champions start moving around the map. Leona is very strong at moving around the map. Leona offers immediate threat to anyone she runs into while moving around the map. Don't move into the enemies side of the map without your allies with you. Even if you catch someone out by yourself, you don't 100-0 kill them, you need an ally with you.

During the Mid Game GENERALLY you want to be near the lane that your ADC is farming, and put ward around that area. Keep eyes on the minimap to see where you allies are going to potentially assist them and to spot enemy movements. You want to take fights anywhere on the map so long that you have a numbers advantage. Leona has great fights diving towers or in the jungle.

When you are moving around the fog of war play mindfully, think about who can be where you are going, understand the risk, and don't take the risk when it is too high. Would you walk in the enemy jungle when you have no wards in the river, the entire enemy team is missing and your allies won't be behind you? Of course not.

Throughout the Mid - Late game there will be moments of no action in which it is optimal for you to drop 3 wards around an objective, then recall to refresh the ward count on your Remnant of the Aspect and return to your team.

It's important if you have a lead to keep the ball rolling on Leona you will start to fall off in the late game, so it's very important to continue to get good engages. Any fight that doesn't go your way will delay the game by a considerable amount which isn't good for Leona.

Late Game your job as Support stays the same, you need to deny the enemy vision with Control Wards and provide vision to your team on key areas relative to the game state.

Leona's job late game shifts depending on the game state as well, if your allies are strong you can be the ones to start fights, if the game is even or if you are behind it's probably best to stay on your ADC and wait for the enemy to start fights. Even though you spend the majority of the Early & Mid Game engage on Leona her abilities can be used to peel and provide safety for your allies as well.

To identify this game state press tab and take note of all champions both allies and enemies levels, amount of kills and deaths, and what items they currently have. This will give you an idea of what champions are strong and which ones are not giving you more insight to craft a better game plan before an engagement.

In the late game fights mean more because champions are more powerful and stay dead for longer. If one team ace's the other they have full reign of the map and are free to take minion waves, jungle camps, Dragon, Baron, Towers, everything. They can take everything that they can for the duration of the death timer. So winning team fights or not losing team fights becomes very important late game.

With that being said the game plan should be obvious when ahead don't miss abilities or misplay in general and lose a fight, and when behind don't take fights and fights that are forced onto your team do your best to counter and disengage.



Roaming on any support is pretty simple, it's when you take a timing window in which your ADC is safe to have an impact somewhere else on the map. Leona's roams are effective simply because he offers a lot of CC and damage that is hard to miss, but cost Leona's position.

So when should you roam is very, very easy don't over think it, and don't over do it.

• When the Bot Lane wave is pushed into the enemy tower
• When you have recalled and can move to any lane
• When your ADC is dead / recalling and you would be alone bot lane
• When the enemy laners are pushed up

These are all good times to roam, how effective that particular roam will be is affect by literally everything on the map, the minion wave positions in Bot lane & the lane you are ganking, the likelyhood of the gank, the HP, Mana, level values of your ally laner compared to the enemy laner. Moving with your Jungler also helps pull off a gank. Some ADC champions such as Ezreal have abilities to farm the minion wave from long range safely, others such as Kai'Sa will be zoned completely if you leave.

When you do get a roam off, look to either recall and reset bot, or to immediately walk back to the bot lane. Do NOT overstay, get back to your ADC.

When you leave lane you will also be missing Relic stacks so gold, and experience from the minion wave. Basically the longer you stay in Bot Lane the more levels and gold you will have.

Defensive
Defensive warding is warding on your side of the map
Neutral
Neutral Warding is in the river / lane bushes.
Offensive
Offensive warding is warding into the enemies side of the map (past the river).

When you should or shouldn't ward depends on your allies location and the enemies location / potential location. Look at the map and think.

Control Ward, Control wards are to deny the enemy vision, not to give yourself extra vision. Especially on a champion such as Leona you can abuse the fog of war to surprise the enemies and engage on them unexpectedly.

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