RANT: Leona vanguard update

Luna Ather Solis·2/10/2017, 9:42:27 AM·2 votes·1,587 views

so riot, you guys seem to hardly ever comment on any post about Leona

So Leona was release to be the "first female tank back in 2011 July" outside of her W nothing else about her kit is tanky and you guys also gave her a fail passive because you did not want her to be jungling like all the tank where doing at the time she was in development (i have spoken to rioters at conventions and i even met and talk to iron stylus about),

she is not a true support but since all her abilities scale with ap poorly see cant really be played has a full ap champion successfully, but after years of playing Leona, i was eventually able to play her in mid top and jungle efficiently but in patch 6.4 you nerf all of her abilities from her lack luster passive up t her ult, all her abilities already have poor ap scaling so now with her base damage cut in half you successfully force a champ in a support role that was never design for that purpose

Passive: sunlight get rid of it, give her a passive that fits a tank/vanguard Q: should scaling with both ad/ap or hp/ap since Leona players 99.95% never build ap, unless we are playing a rotating game mode when building expensive ap items is doable W: instead of dealing ap damage changing her w to scaling with hp to giver her more defensive stats would be much better and have having that bonus 20% mr and armor be a passive would be nice, instead of only when her w is active so many tanks get free stats outside of actives abilities

E: could use come work change it to any type of gap closer, like instead of a snare, make it to dash if hit enemies it displace them

honestly i don care what happen has long has riot keep her game-play relatively the same has all in tank with cc

15 Comments

Ahristocats2/10/2017, 9:48:20 AM6 votes

[{quoted}](name=Aureus leo Noir,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AOrGWj5b,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-02-10T09:42:27.052+0000)

she is not a true support

this is the most dumb comment i ever read she is a true support BECAUSE SHE HELPS HER ALLIES TO KILL PEOPLE IN LANE

her passive increases damage from allies her CC and her gapcloser

all of this makes her powerful in 2v2 if you have a lane bully adc, ever played against leona+caitlyn lane where cait puts a trap beneath you?

stop crying for nothing, leona is perfectly fine and she works PERFECTLY fine as a vanguard she doesn't need anything

[{quoted}](name=Aureus leo Noir,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AOrGWj5b,comment-id=,timestamp=2017-02-10T09:42:27.052+0000) she scales poorly with ap

INDEED, thanks sherlock i didn't realise that a tanky support champion should not scale at all and should not be a mage but should rather go for utility+tank items which is the reason she has low ap scalings

Requiemsfire2/10/2017, 10:12:58 AM6 votes

Yeah you lost me she's not a true support yet she functions perfectly well in a 2v2 lane.

You could easily argue the only thing tank like about nautilus is his W based on your logic, but tanks aren't all about beefing themselves up. Leona is an offensive tank or rather vanguard who devotes their resources into diving headfirst and disrupting the enemy backline with powerful CC as tanks are characterized by the nature of their kit.

Yes, because tanks need AD/AP scalings to function as a tank. (sarcasm)

And despite her nerf where they lowered all her base stats she is still pretty strong.

And why would you want to displace enemies you hit with your E when you want to dash to them to lock them down with your Q+ulti?

Luna Ather Solis2/10/2017, 12:51:11 PM1 votes

when i made this post/rant i expecting people that play leona to comment, none of you guys play this champ and Requiemsfire 10 games with a champ does not mean anything so word comments really means nothing, you lack experience with champ to understand what i am talking about

Ps i dont go on boards saying someone post is BS on champions i don't play, because what would i know

Luna Ather Solis2/10/2017, 1:19:02 PM1 votes

i have 520k, lv7 got mastery same day day riot release 6&7 playing her jungle and top

Matake2/11/2017, 12:20:22 PM1 votes

Leona is a tank. Tanks must be able to peel for their carry. She does this.

Tanks must be able to survive and disrupt the enemy carry. She does this.

Tanks must be able to take damage. She can do this as well as Rammus who is also a tank.

Luna Ather Solis2/10/2017, 11:39:31 AM1 votes

gross EUW and OCE

wishbone252/10/2017, 9:47:50 AM1 votes

W is practicly useless in this case , as a leona main i dont see the purpose of W and nerfed so hard