I main Leona and would love to be able to play her elsewhere, but I don't really see how she could do anything else. Her passive is useless solo and her cooldowns are pretty long. Any suggestions on how to use her other than a shiny ADC pedestal?
Balance, Leona has weaknesses that need to be shored up in the jungle. For one her movement speed is bad. Shes just not that fast moving around. I actually build boots of swiftness on her after i get the elder lizard. Elder lizard helps shore up her other weakness in the jungle. damage. She just doesn't do alot of sustained damage. Her abilities allow her to do burst but once on cd your doing much less damage. Lizard true damage w/runes and masteries increase the clear time alot. After having lizard and boots of swiftness i usually go sunfire cape. +armor +passive magic aoe damage increases your clear time even more as well as increasing dps on your ganks.
Ganking is important as leona jungle. It is. Level 3 gank is super powerful. However, against folks that ward it renders you useless early because your so goddamn slow they usually run away before u can gank. Therefore i would concentrate on building to clear the jungle faster.
Being prepared for the counter jungle is also very important, make sure to coordinate with your laners to make themselves availible incase you get invaded. 8 times out of 10 an invading jungler will come alone because you are leona ; /. And while you most likely lose to the 1v1 if your teamates our on their toes you almost always win, because they can't get away.
A leona w/lizard/boots of swiftness/sunfire cape is terrifying coming out of the jungle and should kill almost anyone that doesn't have wards set up and even if they do the cc+dive at level 6 is enormous.
Jungle. It's legit strong if you go 100% tank and just take red buff for yourself. Kill enemies and soak up hella damage
AD Jungle. Blade of the Ruined King. There's no escape.
Seen bruiser top and AD jungle. She works best as a support but when you're just screwing around in normals you can do whatever. Heck you could do her ap with lich bane/dfg and magpen.
Yeah i'd probably go AD red, Static Armour yellows, scaling MR blues, with movement speed quints.
Yeah, you have someone who has a gap-closer like Leona with her E, a follow-up stun with her Q, and an AoE follow-up stun with her R.
Assuming your aren't trying to take enemies on 1v1, and you're ganking lanes, the movement speed slow as well as the additional contribution of damage is extremely helpful for kill secures.
That's 4 different abilities that she can use to crowd control. You've got to be Olaf to save yourself from all of that.
That's honestly a good question, and I wouldn't be the one to answer that.
Elder Lizard only procs on physical damage, so only her auto-attack. Probably not the best choice. Some people might suggest Spectral Wraith, but they're probably going to assume you're a jungle support and steal all of your large minions anyway, which would strongly defeat the purpose.
The only remainder first builds would be Ancient Golem or Madred's Razor. Madred's does help tremendously in clear speed, which is something Leona lacks STRONGLY in the jungle, although CDR and Tankiness from Ancient Golem would scale well later on in the game.
BotRK + Merc Treads -> All Tank (Preferably with CDR)
