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Recommended Items
Runes: Standard Stock
+10% Attack Speed
+6 Armor
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Threats & Synergies
Gangplank
There are very few lane matchups in the entire game of league of legends as difficult and one-sided as this, thus the hardest rating is reserved for it alone. Leona vs Gangplank. He has a cleanse and a speed buff which by itself counters half your kit. Aside from being hard to gank or pin down he counters you in a few more ways. His passive makes winning trades as Leona impossible. His Q will unavoidably poke you down and zone you away from farm, particularly in tandem with his barrels, which you will have no way to deal with. Even if you roam his ultimate will allow him to contribute in ruining your skirmishes and he will outscale you massively. Buy Ninja Tabi and try to all-in him when his w is down, with jungle help if at all possible and even still be weary of him. Realistically, he should almost always be the champion you ban.
However, all that is said concerning my experience with Gangplank players around Diamond 3 elo, the one saving grace for Leona is that Gangplank is difficult to execute and should be much less of a threat in lower elos.
Twitch
One of the best adc's to camp your leona toplane with his powerful early ganks and get ahead. In the lategame you can work as a quazy-support for TwItch while he serves as a fed adc.
Twitch
One of the best adc's to camp your leona toplane with his powerful early ganks and get ahead. In the lategame you can work as a quazy-support for TwItch while he serves as a fed adc.
Champion Build Guide
I am Spell, a Diamond II support main and I've been playing league for the last five years and acquired about 1.5 Million Leona Mastery across many accounts. Leona has always had a place in my heart as the first champion I mained. Sadly her lack of comeback or versatility has had an impact with her popularity and I neglected her too.
This went on for about a year, until it suddenly struck me: Leona can be played as a top lane bruiser!
I had to go
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