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Recommended Items
Spells:
Exhaust
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Sunlight (PASSIVE)
Leona Passive Ability
Introduction
**Update 04/01/14** 2nd Update, this updates the build quite a bit
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Changed the Gold Income item.
Get 2nd Tier boots a lot earlier (around 2950 Gold earlier)
Removed Thornmail, good armour but passive is not as good as presumed.
Hi, I'm BlessingOfChaos. I have been on LOL for about 8 months now and, at the time of writing this guide, have just hit 30 (Currently Silver 1 :D). I hope you find this guide helpful and "current" as this has been written to accommodate the changes in S4.
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Runes
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Mark
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Seal
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Glyph
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You may be thinking that 0/25/5 is a weird spread of Masteries. But I feel for
Leona this is a better spread than the more common 0/21/9. 0/21/9 gives you access to the
Culinary Master
and
Alchemist
Masteries, which may sound good. But in the games I have played
Leona I don't feel that
Health Potions play a big role in her builds. You can usually get to level 6 with just purchasing the 1 potion. And then after that they are rarely needed.
0 Points, keep it that way.
Yes 25 Points! Putting 25 points into the Defence Masteries Tree unlocks quite a bit of extra defence for our
Leona.
Through the use of
Enchanted Armor
,
Hardiness
and
Tenacious
Leona gains quite a bit of armour pre-game.
Tenacious
,
Resistance
and
Evasive
also allow
Leona to handle AP opponents.
More Notable Defence Masteries are:
Just 5 points in Utility? Why!?
As I stated in the start of the Chapter I feel that having the extra points in Defence to unlock things like Runic Shield,
Reinforced Armor
and
Oppression
is better than the extra health given from the Utility health potion Buffs (
Alchemist
and
Culinary Master
)
So with that being reiterated. What have we got in Utility?
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Offence
0 Points, keep it that way.
Defence
Yes 25 Points! Putting 25 points into the Defence Masteries Tree unlocks quite a bit of extra defence for our
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Through the use of
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More Notable Defence Masteries are:
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Runic Shield | Starting the game and every Respawn with a 50 Health Shield can't be a bad thing right? |
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Utility
Just 5 points in Utility? Why!?
As I stated in the start of the Chapter I feel that having the extra points in Defence to unlock things like Runic Shield,
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So with that being reiterated. What have we got in Utility?
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The 1st rank gives you a 4% cooldown bonus and the next 2 ranks only give an extra 3% each. Not worth any more of my precious Defence points. |
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Support StapleRuby Sightstone is something that every Support should pick up quite early game, with
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Tank & DamageGetting
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Talisman Of AscensionTalisman Of Ascension
Its all about the money.Not really. Talisman Of Ascension is one of the best ways for a support to get extra gold in lane, but also for our
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Blocks and extra Armour
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Girl on FireLook at the name. This was made for
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Support Staple Another item made for
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AP Tank ItemThis is a good buy late game after you have finished laning. This allows
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Go FetchThis allows
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Best of BothThis gives you 50 Armour and 40 MR, with a nice little perk of coming back alive if you do something foolish like die.
The reason I go with
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This is used to initiate or to stop an opponent running away. Use with
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Use this to make yourself a tank. Plain and simple. If you get
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Compared to
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This is a very useful CC skill. This slows a very large radius and has quite a long cast range, but if you are close enough to hit straight in the centre of the circle, then you also get a Stun to go with that slow.
Skill Sequence In Lane
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The reason for this order is that
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Skill Sequence Late Game
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This should be used late game against a group of enemies such as a 5v5. Since
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Flash is the best Summoner Skill in LOL, take it every time.
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This slows down opponents and allows for the ADC to take the kill. It also reduces enemies attack damage.
Want To Be Moaned At?
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Nothing wrong with
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The original version of this guide said to use
Ancient Coin over
Relic Shield, which at the start of Pre-Season S4, was a good idea because low ELO ADC's did not know to let you kill minions, and could even complain at the support for minion stealing which is not the case.
The following sums are assuming that minions first spawn 1:30 into the game, every 30 seconds thereafter and every 1:30 there will be a
Siege Minion accompanying the 6 normal minions.
Siege Minion is worth 40+1 Gold for every 3 minutes of time elapsed
Melee Minion is worth 20+0.5 Gold for every 3 minutes of time elapsed
Caster Minion is worth 15+0.5 Gold for every 3 minutes of time elapsed *Not used in sums*
This also only counts Tier 1 of the gold income items without upgrading
So as long as my maths are correct, (if not then its only going to be a small amount of gold out) the
Relic Shield is actually a much better choice for
Leona. Just make sure that when attacking the minions, you aim for the Melee Minion and not the Caster Minion as the Melee always gives 5 extra Gold.
So, if you have an ADC that you know and trust. You could do one of the following technique's.
The proper way to do this is to let the ADC kill most of the minions, but tell him/her to leave 4 of the minions for
Leona to kill. This way your both getting bonus gold, and the ADC is also getting a steady tick of gold. And if the ADC chooses they can also upgrade
Nomad's Medallion to Talisman of ascension if they feel the need for the Active effect. Credit goes to Aerthan for this idea.
Ok this is for the very ADVANCED people out there. The best way to do this is to get
Leona to go in with an
Eclipse on the minions, to lower the health of the whole wave of minions. Then
Leona kills 4, and the ADC kills the rest. This is a technique that will not work on Solo Q without a very communicative ADC so i do reccomend this only with people on your friends list.
This means that you both get quite a lot of bonus gold and is probably the best way to make money in the game this patch.
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Ok so for the Maths behind the changes.
The following sums are assuming that minions first spawn 1:30 into the game, every 30 seconds thereafter and every 1:30 there will be a
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This also only counts Tier 1 of the gold income items without upgrading
After 20 Minutes
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Relic Shield = 110% More gold than
Ancient Coin.
That's WITHOUT counting the extra gold that the ADC receives!
So as long as my maths are correct, (if not then its only going to be a small amount of gold out) the
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Bottom Lane Synergy
So, if you have an ADC that you know and trust. You could do one of the following technique's.
Technique 1
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Technique 2
ADC
Targon's Brace
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This means that you both get quite a lot of bonus gold and is probably the best way to make money in the game this patch.
**NOTE** Don't Forget the Cooldown on Face of the Mountain! Your ADC won't be happy!
To sum up.
I hope this guide has helped you to become a better
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Please comment and tell me what you like, and I suppose you can tell me what you don't like too.
And as stated a few times in this guide. This guide is supposed to look different and slightly abnormal for a support, but the mix of
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Regards
BlessingOfChaos (EUW)
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