@Riot: Leona is the latest champ you've "Sejuani'd" and it's time to fix it.

princeblumpkin·4/11/2018, 1:19:22 AM·25 votes·17,473 views

Now that we've nerfed the actual problem (aftershock nerfs + nerfs to early game resolve strength) can we revert some of those now unnecessary Leona nerfs? Because no matter what stats site you choose to use, her stats range from mediocre to terrible. She's now worse off than she was before the rune update. Her winrate doesn't even reach 50% in bronze and silver where she's most effective and it only gets worse the higher elo you go. This is a clear case of a champion being "Sejauni'd" and should not be ignored.

62 Comments

chipndip14/11/2018, 1:47:19 AM12 votes

But whenever Leona's too strong she just kills someone off of a single engage. Shit's mad annoying.

RiotRiot MapleNectar4/11/2018, 11:19:11 PM10 votes

We talked about her and Rammus yesterday in planning for 8.9 as two of the notable folks who are now sitting (likely) a little lower than they could be. We're thinking about some potentially small stuff to them this patch. I think we need to be careful with Leona though, she goes from "meh she's ok" to "wtf did that Leo just solo me" pretty quick.

Bob the Toastr4/11/2018, 7:19:02 AM7 votes

You act like a 48% or 49% winrate is horrible. For a decent pickrate, that kind of win rate is fairly balanced. You need to consider the fact that about half of champions should have win rates under 50%. That's just how math works.

Although we do need to do something about Janna who has very high pick rate and pretty high win rate.

Poop Jelly4/11/2018, 2:24:04 AM7 votes

what? She's balanced, if not on the strong side at the moment

Jaygo414/11/2018, 5:29:24 AM6 votes

Welcome to the club JarvanIV continues to be balanced around being a 1 shot assassin rather than hitting what was wrong with him, dude is absolutely horrendous to play rn

Sire Hippington4/11/2018, 1:55:16 PM4 votes

Since then are 49%winrate with 7% pick 'terrible' stats? https://euw.op.gg/champion/leona/statistics/support

I like Leona so i'm not opposed to some buffs, but just from stats she's in a fine enough spot. Tells you alot about the state of the game and it's community when anything that is below 52%win and 10% pick is seen as weak...

Death by Glamour4/11/2018, 1:48:29 AM3 votes

Opgg has her hovering around the 50% mark

NekoniClaws4/11/2018, 6:23:29 AM2 votes

As a Leona main... I've just not played ranked this season. First she's permabanned because she's OP. She gets nerfed, then she's permabanned because people had PTSD. Now if I play ranked I can get a 53% winrate on my main? Hum. Hum.

She's had like 8 direct and indirect nerfs and I expect MORE indirect ones come, because 'tanks OP'.

FrostQueensPlane4/11/2018, 5:30:42 PM2 votes

Yeah maybe if they gave everyone in the preseason MR so any sort of magic damage on tanks wasn't massively overbuffed. They didn't, so leona doesn't deserve buffs.

Uwhtazn4/12/2018, 1:33:17 AM1 votes

I would lilke a future rework on Leona. She was the first support I main her back in season 5 until i switch to jungle.

Passive - It's nice her adc deals bonus damage, but teamfights it hardly even matters. Q - I have mix feelings to either keep, remove or move it with her E. W- I believe her W could be better. The bonus Armor and MR scaling is nice to make her tanky, but I feel like this could be her passive on her abilities and then have a new W. E- Keep the gap closer R- Still the same unless we can create a better teamfighting CC.