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Suggested Leona Changes From A Diamond 4 Leona Main, Over 4000 Ranked Games

Tualkaer·5/25/2017, 12:57:27 PM·5 votes·486 views

I know that Riot has done and is planning more changes to the Juggernaut and Vanguard class heroes. I just want to share my ideas to make Leona more of a competitive choice in professional play. I personally think Leona's play style is perfect. A champion who can make long range picks, but doesn't have to commit if the ult doesn't land just right, who has one of the shortest cooldown point and click single target stuns in the game makes her useful and unique for the support class. Her all in potential level 2 and 3 is amazing. But she has too many weaknesses. None of her cc are displacement spells so she can't stomp a Zac or other champions from jumping in like a Janna tornado, a Thresh flay, or an Alistar head butt could. That makes it very hard for her to peel against a lot of champions. If she falls behind in lane, she isn't very tanky and she doesn't have an Alistar ult or a Braum unbreakable that will always be useful to be tanky or protect the team from projectiles. She doesn't have anything like Tahm Kench's thick skin for sustain or his devour to protect a carry. She doesn't have a Taric ult to protect the whole team potentially from death, stalling a fight for crucial seconds. In short she is a high risk, low to medium reward champion, thus she sees almost no competitive play. With two minor tweaks to her W, I believe this could be fixed but still keep the integrity of her unique game play as a Vanguard Support.

First if Eclipse (W) gave armor and magic resist to her nearest ally (or even better give her a way to target a ally like Nunu does with blood boil) equal to half of the armor and magic resit she gains from it this would give her more use in team fights even if she falls behind. Braum does that when he casts stand behind me and that ability is a much more versatile and secure dash than Leona's Zenith Blade (E). So why can she also give some bonuses to an ally. The second tweak to Eclipse would be that not only does it give the armor and magic resist to the ally but it cast Eclipse on them giving them the explosion of light after 3 second too. Make it so that enemies can't be damage by more than one explosion from Eclipse but if they are hit by both the second does proc the sunlight passive of the first. This will encourage her allies to be more willing to commit to all in, which is what Leona is all about. It would also greatly improve her quality of life to make it so that if the explosion of light from Eclipse deals the killing blow to an enemy champion that the kill credit goes to her ally that also received Eclipse, if any did. Too many times in solo que Leona is force to put Eclipse on when going for a easy kill secure because she is not sure if anyone will follow up or if there is in fact a gank waiting for her right after she Zenith Blades in. And so because her carries where to slow in the follow up, Eclipse kill steals way too often making carries mad at her. Giving her these buffs without giving her a few nerfs as well would make her too strong so it would be necessary to take away some damage from spells and maybe even base stats to make sure she doesn't become over powered.

Please consider my suggestions. I want to see Leona in competitive play, but I don't think her game play needs to be adjusted. She is already unique enough from all other champions as a Vanguard Support.

4 Comments

Xavanic5/25/2017, 2:11:53 PM1 votes

Leonas still fairly strong, rn she needs like 1 or 2 qol changes and even those might send her out of control, in addition, having her w give an ally armor and mr...no...thats braums gimmick, keep it on braum

KONO RUBICK DA5/25/2017, 2:15:10 PM1 votes

if this game makes leona comeback she needs her ult CD to be increased because this is ridiculous

i don't want to play the support role again with someone that can make the enemy adc snowballing into the fatest man in the world

Kal Vas Flam5/25/2017, 2:17:48 PM1 votes

I had a similar idea but with Eclipse giving nearby allies a health shield based on Leo's. It would be really close range though and intended to synergize with other dive champions so allies would feel better about following Leo into the fray. It would give some health scaling too, which she currently has zero of and I think it hurts her.

I used to love Leo and mained her even though I otherwise hated support. I just can't play her anymore though she's too far outclassed. I am slowly progressing more and more toward being a support main and I just can't ever find a match that says "hey, you need Leo this game." Her biggest issue is the fact that she has to leave her ADC to do most of her work, and with all the divers in this game that's very dangerous for the ADC. I hate to say it, but I want to love Leo again, so I'll say it - she needs to be reworked into a top lane tank.

AccountaBilabudy5/25/2017, 7:45:26 PM1 votes

She is fine as is but could use some QOL buffs. I like your ideas, OP.

But I would also like to add that her passive procs should stack. So let's say I hit W and its charging up. Then I E onto enemy champ, which applies the passive, then I Q them. That should make the passive stack to two. Then my W goes off, that should make it three stacks. So that when my ally hits them it blows up all three stacks instead of wasting them. Now this would obviously require a numbers rework on the passive so that 1 proc is less than it currently is on live, but two and three stacks would be more.