Leona
Build Guide by BaLoRi
My Full Tenacity & Immortal Leona Builds (All Lanes: Top/Mid/Jungle/Bot)
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Runes: Full Tenacity Support Version
1
2
3
Resolve
Precision
+8 ability haste
+6 Armor
+6 Armor
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Recommended Items
Items
Ability Order
Sunlight (PASSIVE)
Leona Passive Ability
About Me
Hello everyone,
My nickname is BaLoRi, I am an Educational Content-Build Creator that is part of Fnatic and Fnatic Network, that I got 1 goal every single time. To create the MOST POWERFUL builds for each champion, that will give you the FREE ELO that you really want and rank up with your own skills in any DIVISION you want while of course having fun and enjoying the game!
With this build you will have around 60-70% win ratio all across the Elos!
Feel free to join me in our youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lolbalori & https://twitch.tv/balori for more BUILDS and GUIDES and join our Discord server for real time build creation: https://discord.gg/RazhNDW and reach any ELO you want!

Hope to enjoy your Elo Boost!
Best regards.
Let’s start with WHY we are choosing this build overall something else, especially while we also got the IMMORTAL Leona build version (even as support) that from now on will be our second choice for items and style!
Our Full Tenacity build is a combination of Sustain and item effects that will give your team everything they need to be victorious no matter the situation. With this build
Leona become a really strong from early to full late game Tank/Support Champion. You will be able to tank an insanely big amount of damage against any Champion and help your team with what they need MOST, someone to do the engages, tank all the damage, CC all the enemies and win every single team fight while staying always alive!
For me
Leona is by far the STRONGEST support (and not only) champion, the reason is simple and most people can't understand that.
Leona has everything you need, 3 type of stuns (and slow if you miss the center of your ultimate), damage and INSANELY BIG SUSTAIN from both AD and AP type damage cause of your W and
Aftershock also her passive
Sunlight allow your teammates to do an extra amount of damage FOR FREE!
But why to choose to play with the Full Tenacity build? Cause this build use everything
Leona has and take it to the next level. Leona always is a champion that will do the "engage" that means you will go IN FIRST, so you will probably die first if you got stunned while trying to secure your combos, this build will give you up to 75% Tenacity, this means that anything that will hit you, stun or slow will be reduced by 75%, the 1 second stun will become ~0.3 seconds, sounds good? Trust me it’s INSANE.
Leona Cooldowns for her skills are pretty low, you can use your
Shield of Daybreak W and
Zenith Blade tons of times in each team fights, what you need to secure that? NOT TO BE STOPPED by anything and to sustain an INSANELY big damage while doing that.
So in full build you will have the following stats:
3700+ HP, 50+ Ability haste, 65-75% Tenacity and a really big amount of Armor and Magic resist. But it’s not just that, cause of our runes choices you will have an even bigger sustain cause of
Triumph this will give you 12% of your missing health back after each kill/assist you take, this means you will go in, fight as long as you want, kill 1 or 2 and get back again for the rest 3.
This build will make your favorite
Leona to be STRONGER than EVER and will secure your wins even in the hardest games that the SUPPORT will make the difference.
Our Full Tenacity build is a combination of Sustain and item effects that will give your team everything they need to be victorious no matter the situation. With this build

For me




But why to choose to play with the Full Tenacity build? Cause this build use everything




So in full build you will have the following stats:
3700+ HP, 50+ Ability haste, 65-75% Tenacity and a really big amount of Armor and Magic resist. But it’s not just that, cause of our runes choices you will have an even bigger sustain cause of

Here is a taste of what you can do with our Immortal-Tenacity Leona Top Lane
This build will make your favorite

We got two different set of runes one for Support and One for Top/Mid/Jungle lanes, what we are focusing on is on getting enough sustain, tenacity, INSANE DAMAGE and other useful effects for being the STRONGEST from early till full late game!
Lets talk about the combinations and why they are worth:
For the Support build version
Resolve + Precision
Aftershock One of the most powerful runes for Immortal type Support champions, this rune will give you a big amount of armor and magic resist after doing CC to your enemy, for
Leona it means with 3/4 of her skills! The reason we are choosing this over
Grasp of the Undying is cause as support you need to GO IN INSTANT and you wont have time to be in combat for 4 seconds to fully use the effect right away! The same apply as JUNGLER as well, if you are Top or MID, you will choose to follow the second build rune version that we will describe below!
Font of Life Bonus HP heal to the allies that will focus your CC target, this will apply for all of your teammates and it will be a very powerful support effect that its heal will also be multiplied by 20% cause of the power of
Redemption
and another 5-15% if you choose to play with
Revitalize over
Unflinching
Conditioning Another useful and sustain pick, this is a MUST pick for our build, cause it will give a big amount of permanent armor/magic resist after 12mins of the game! (9 bonus armor and Magic resistance and increases your total armor and magic resistance by 5%.)
Unflinching Our Full Tenacity build needs this, 10% bonus Tenacity that goes up to 30% while losing HP! Something that will make you an absolute MONSTER the more you fight!
or
Revitalize This rune is super powerful and finally will be an option for
Leona as well, cause now we got a shield effect with
Fimbulwinter and a Heal effect with
Redemption, making both of these effects to increase by 5-15%!!
For Precision
Triumph This will give you back 12% missing health and bonus gold of each Assist/kill you will be doing in the game. Super useful cause you will need it after engaging 1v5 all the time!
Legend: Tenacity The MUST PICK rune for our build as Support, this will give you total 30% Tenacity at full stacks! Together with
Unflinching
Mercury's Treads and
Elixir of Iron you will have the MAX TENACITY and the ability to go all in and take zero CC from any champion!
For the Top/Mid or Jungle (As Jungler You can play with both versions but choose
Aftershock instead)
Resolve + Domination
Grasp of the Undying While being in combat you will have the ability to do 4% of your max HP as dmg and also heal of your 2% of your HP plus 5 bonus health each time you activating it, that means that you will become stronger and stronger the more you fight!
Demolish You can also go for
Font of Life but if you want a more Solo approach then go for this rune instead to do bonus damage to the towers and get them faster in order to move to other lanes and start destroying all!!
Second Wind gain health regeneration equal to 6 (+ 4% of your missing health) over 10 seconds that together with
Doran's Shield will make you have so much sustain from early till late game that you will be insanely powerful just cause of this combination of rune-item!
Revitalize Bonus 5-15% HEALS and SHIELDS, a must to have rune, that working incredible good with your
Spirit Visage and
Redemption that will help you survive against anything and if you got a support with a shield-heal like
Janna
Yuumi etc. will make you even STRONGER!!
For the secondary runes tree we got two different options!
Domination:
Cheap Shot Bonus True dmg after your CC, that means you will activate this rune non stop with Q-E-R making you use also true damage on your engages!
Taste of Blood If you want better sustain, then this is your option, bonus HP each 20seconds while damaging your enemies, this amount will multiplied by 40% cause of
Revitalize and
Spirit Visage
Ultimate Hunter Bonus Ability haste for your Ultimate, our
Solar Flare is one of our biggest weapons for our Immortal Leona, now we will use it FASTER and destroy them more EASIER while having a bigger impact in teamfights!!
And also Precision:
Triumph Missing HP Heal plus bonus gold for every kill/assist, you think the heal value is low for this rune, but in reality you will be gaining more than 500-600 HP per kill/assist, cause you will multiply this heal by
Revitalize and
Spirit Visage
Presence of Mind If you feel like having mana problems, then this rune is for you, giving you bonus mana regeneration while damaging your enemies!
Legend: Tenacity Bonus 30% Tenacity, making you have a total tenacity of 60%+ that will let you avoid ANY CC while fighting 1v5! One of the most important stats in the game that will also let you the option of going for
Plated Steelcaps instead of
Mercury's Treads to counter both CC and Basic attackers with lots of ON-hit effects!
If you want to understand how Heals, Shields and Regeneration works and why we are choosing these runes over anything else, we got our league masterclass that will help you:
So what these runes will give you, no matter if you choose the Solo Lane or Support versions? Insanely big sustain with combination of Armor/Magic resist bonuses, Tenacity that will make you walk your way to the team fights and useful runes effects that will make you unkillable!
Leona will always going to be one of the strongest champions in the game and with our Balorian’s style we made her EVEN MORE POWERFUL!
Now that you fully understood how to choose your runes, it's time to start understanding our Items!
Lets talk about the combinations and why they are worth:
For the Support build version
Resolve + Precision





and another 5-15% if you choose to play with




or




For Precision





For the Top/Mid or Jungle (As Jungler You can play with both versions but choose

Resolve + Domination










For the secondary runes tree we got two different options!
Domination:






And also Precision:







If you want to understand how Heals, Shields and Regeneration works and why we are choosing these runes over anything else, we got our league masterclass that will help you:
So what these runes will give you, no matter if you choose the Solo Lane or Support versions? Insanely big sustain with combination of Armor/Magic resist bonuses, Tenacity that will make you walk your way to the team fights and useful runes effects that will make you unkillable!

Now that you fully understood how to choose your runes, it's time to start understanding our Items!
Let’s start with the Items and our Items Strategy. I come up with this build after hundreds of different combinations, to create this final build that can’t lose vs ANYTHING and ANYONE!
This explanation will be for both Support and SOLO(Top/Mid or even Jungle) Roles, cause only the runes will be different (Check above) while item build will be the same only with small differences that you will for sure fully understand on your own as you continue reading!!
As support, you will always start with
Relic Shield and Health Pots its the strongest support item for our build. And also you will help your allies last hit better and give you much more gold as well! Overall the support items are the most gold efficient items in the game, they are getting upgraded on their own while you just need to last hit creeps for your ADC!
As Laner, you will start with
Doran's Shield, this item is one of the MOST GOLD Efficient items in the game, will give you everything that you need to survive early and together with the
Second Wind you will have a double regeneration effect to keep yourself healthy while fighting!
At your first back you will focus to have 1100-1250 Gold, and you will buy
Bami's Cinder and a
Refillable Potion that you will keep almost all game long, what I love about the new mythic change is that you can buy any item you want and fully use the stats for your own benefit to be something MORE than just a support!
After getting
Bami's Cinder the next part item that you will focus on getting is going to be
Bramble Vest this item will give you armor and also an amazing heal reduction effect to the attackers, super powerful especially if you are playing against heavy heal type champions like
Soraka
Yuumi etc.
The first to complete item will be the mythic item that we will play with is going to be
Sunfire Aegis this item will give you HP, Armor, Magic Resist, Ability Haste, a DOUBLE damage per second around you and bonus tenacity for each legendary item that you will complete!!
**This item alone will make powerful enough to not need your allies to kill an ADC solo, but remember to watch for the level or item advantages first.
If you are playing with the Mobility-Tenacity
Leona Build version then you will finish instead of
Sunfire Aegis the
Turbo Chemtank a powerful and cheap item for the Support Build version that will also give you very OP stats, HP, Armor, Magic Resist, Huge Ability Haste and movement speed effect for YOU and your ALLIES to make sure you will always reach your enemies within seconds, plus of course a damage and AOE Slow effect, with each legendary item you will gain HP and Ability haste to make yourself even stronger, more Ability Haste means less CD for your skills making Leona EXTREMLY Dangerous if left alone!
After finishing our
Sunfire Aegis for Top/MID/Support/Jungle roles or
Turbo Chemtank ONLY as SUPPORT, then we also need to buy an item part that we need to stack in order to finish the item later on, this item is going to be
Tear of the Goddess with this you will have enough mana to spam your skills more and not have overall mana problems later on and especially in full late game at all, one of the major problems of
Leona with our builds was the mana problems cause of how recent we can use our Q-W-E with the huge amount of ability haste that we got! So
Tear of the Goddess that will be finished into
Winter's Approach as a 3rd item will be the solution to EVERYTHING!!
The second item that we will finish is going to be
Thornmail an item too powerful to ignore, not only you will have armor-hp and repel damage, but you will also have a second heal reduction effect while CC the target that will reduce the heal effects from the enemy by 60%, for
Leona this stat alone is CRAZY, cause all of her skills can activate it,
Thornmail as
Leona is a must to have, especially with the game right now to be as crazy with the heals as it is right now!
As Third item we will start building one of the MOST OP items that exist for our Immortal builds, this will be
Winter's Approach a super cheap item that will give you HP, Tons of MANA to spam your skills, %Mana to HP effect and NON-STOP SHIELDS every time you are slowing (R) or CC (Q-E) your enemies, that means in the entire teamfight, cause you will always have something to CC your enemies with (3 total skills)
Now you got sustain and you got damage, so our next option will be a more team-focus item, the 4th item for your Full Tenacity build will be
Redemption an item that will make you EVEN STRONGER, HP, Ability haste, 20% bonus HEALS and SHIELDS for you and your allies and a heal AOE almost global range effect that will heal you and your allies (plus it will get multiplied by 20%) and also will do 10% MAX TRUE DAMAGE to all of the enemies in the area!
As support you will always have the support item that we bought level 1 as last slot, not a bad as an item,
Bulwark of the Mountain will give you enough stats with almost free of a cost and also you will have the words that are super useful.
BUT, if the game is going to full late game and you need to have your last item, then your only choice will be
Warmog's Armor and everything that you will ever need in the game is now completed, HP, Ability haste, 200% hp regen and the ability to go FULL HP with a fountain like healing while being out of combat in order for you to be ready and go in AGAIN fight after fight a super powerful tool that lots of people cant understand, this game is about how good you can trade and stay healthy, this item will give you that and EVEN MORE!
Another option is to skip
Redemption and go right away for
Warmog's Armor sooner. If you want to keep having the wards in the game, overall as you can understand
Warmog's Armor is an incredible powerful tool to have and you can always choose it over
Redemption for a more Solo Carry type of build!
Also cause of the mythic item that we are playing with
Sunfire Aegis we will also get 20% more Tenacity from the Legendary items that we completed, making you even more UNSTOPPABLE than before!
And of course never forget to buy
Elixir of Iron this item together with your
Mercury's Treads
Unflinching and
Legend: Tenacity they will give you all the TENACITY you need to never be stopped by any kind of ability!! Also don't forget that our build is also an utility build that helps your teammates reach insanely big movement speeds, and
Elixir of Iron will also give an extra movement speed bonus to those who following you with your engage!
So your FULL Support
Leona BUILD will look like this:
Sunfire Aegis/
Turbo Chemtank
Thornmail
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Redemption
Bulwark of the Mountain
Elixir of Iron
or without the support item (super late)
Sunfire Aegis/
Turbo Chemtank
Thornmail
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Redemption
Warmog's Armor
Elixir of Iron
Now as SOLO LANER Immortal
Leona you got some small changes, first of all you will always follow the
Sunfire Aegis item path with the benefits that we talked above. You can choose to build
Redemption if you want or completely skip it for
Demonic Embrace OR
Warmog's Armor if you are not going to skip it and follow the build path of
Sunfire Aegis,
Thornmail,
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Redemption
THEN For Last item as SOLO Laner
Leona you got the following options:
1.
Spirit Visage, this item especially while having
Winter's Approach fully stacked and
Redemption is a must to have, you will have HP, Magic Resist, HP Regain and the most INSANE passive effect of an item in the entire game, 25% BONUS HEALS and SHIELDS as stats. To understand right now what that means, you got 5-15% Bonus heals and shields with
Revitalize, 25% With
Spirit Visage and another 20% FROM
Redemption with a total of 50% - 60% Bonus Heals and shields towards yourself and 25% to 35% Bonus heals towards your allies, that will help
Redemption to do more heal to them you are going to be an UNSTOPPABLE IMMORTAL MONSTER!!!! Forget about being a support, you are going to be a solo Carry. Damage, Sustain, Immortality the perfect combination of things that you need to win every game.
2.
Warmog's Armor as we talked about above, this item is going to give you everything that you need to carry games easily by not being low HP outside the combat and to have the ability to reengage as many times as you want. The most gold efficient item in the entire game.
3.
Demonic Embrace Another powerful item that we can use to carry games easily, AP, HP, %HP to AP effect and also a %Max HP Damage effect that will help you melt any kind of enemies against you!
So for
Leona Top/MID/Jungle the build will look like these:
Sunfire Aegis
Thornmail
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Spirit Visage
Warmog's Armor
Elixir of Iron
Sunfire Aegis
Thornmail
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Redemption
Spirit Visage
Elixir of Iron
Sunfire Aegis
Thornmail
Mercury's Treads
Winter's Approach
Demonic Embrace
Warmog's Armor
Elixir of Iron
This explanation will be for both Support and SOLO(Top/Mid or even Jungle) Roles, cause only the runes will be different (Check above) while item build will be the same only with small differences that you will for sure fully understand on your own as you continue reading!!
As support, you will always start with

As Laner, you will start with


At your first back you will focus to have 1100-1250 Gold, and you will buy


After getting




The first to complete item will be the mythic item that we will play with is going to be

**This item alone will make powerful enough to not need your allies to kill an ADC solo, but remember to watch for the level or item advantages first.
If you are playing with the Mobility-Tenacity



After finishing our






The second item that we will finish is going to be




As Third item we will start building one of the MOST OP items that exist for our Immortal builds, this will be

Now you got sustain and you got damage, so our next option will be a more team-focus item, the 4th item for your Full Tenacity build will be

As support you will always have the support item that we bought level 1 as last slot, not a bad as an item,

BUT, if the game is going to full late game and you need to have your last item, then your only choice will be

Another option is to skip




Also cause of the mythic item that we are playing with

And of course never forget to buy





So your FULL Support









or without the support item (super late)








Now as SOLO LANER Immortal










THEN For Last item as SOLO Laner

1.







2.

3.

So for






















My Full Tenacity & Immortal Leona Builds (All Lanes: Top/Mid/Jungle/Bot)
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