Can you please make a "Dark Horses" segment for Jungle Leona?

darkdill··3 votes·605 views
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As the above match will attest, Jungle Leona is actually pretty deadly if you know what you're doing, especially with the new Bami's Cinder and Cinderhulk enchantment helping her clear speed. It might not be LCS-worthy, sure, but it's still a lot of fun!

Pros

  • Absolutely terrifying gank potential
  • Good cooldown on ultimate lets her initiate ganks more often than other jungle tanks (i.e. Sejuani, Nautilus)
  • Sunlight adds considerably more damage than the victim expects
  • Relatively good counterganker if she catches the enemy jungler near some of her teammates
  • Enables you to trick enemy team's support pick in Draft Mode

Cons

  • Very vulnerable to level 1 cheese plays
  • Reliant on Gromp camp for early clears
  • Horrible jungle farming capability until she gets an Immolation effect
  • Bad objective control on her own
  • Vulnerable to invades if teammates aren't going to help
  • Like other tanks, has trouble catching back up if she falls behind

Any thoughts?

EDIT: Downvotes? HERETICS ARE AFOOT!

7 Comments

Bad Luck Braum1 votes

Don't stare directly at me for too long!

Yutaji1 votes

Jungle Leona is something I used to play and it does work well, but it won't work well in higher elo. She has no damage potential late game and falls off super hard due to that fact.

vC48YNoGbJ1 votes

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Jungle Leona is something I used to play and it does work well, but it won't work well in higher elo. She has no damage potential late game and falls off super hard due to that fact.

I've never jungle leona'd before so I wouldn't know but common sense tells me her potency would derive from her CC filled kit and not her damage.

Yutaji1 votes

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I've never jungle leona'd before so I wouldn't know but common sense tells me her potency would derive from her CC filled kit and not her damage.

Her CD's are too high remain relevant in the late game and the lack of damage is a huge part of why it doesn't work well in high elo. She has an all in kit and 1 chance to score with her ult in a fight whilst doing no damage. Look at other junglers. J4 is tank as well as a CC train as well as high damage. Sejuani is a cc train with high dps and burst. Lee Sin has a great burst as well as sustain and damage.

Leona is purely a CC tank.

darkdill1 votes

Leona can do surprising damage if you have Challenging Smite.

Only Play Darius1 votes

And unlike literally every other jungler in the league, her passive does absolutely nothing for her when clearing.

Sorry but the meta is the meta for a reason. She has poor scalings so if she get's fed off of ganks she still won't be much of a threat. What she is good for is being unkillable and stunlocking half the enemy team, which is why she is played as a botlane support.

Bad Luck Braum2 votes

I think that's why it's called Dark Horse.

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