Making Leona into a Jungle

SandTrout·9/6/2015, 9:37:04 PM·2 votes·509 views

I have played Leona in the jungle with some frequency, but honestly, she its a bit lacking in terms of clear time and mobility.

In general, I'm not a fan of champions being relegated to a single meta-role, so I like the idea of most champions being a flex-pick.

To this end, I propose a simple change to Leona to enhance her jungle-mobility without significantly affecting her clear-time (appropriate trade-off for the strength of her ganks) or effectiveness as a support.

Allow Leona's Zenith Blade (E) dash to Large and Epic neutral monsters.

This would give a bit of mobility to escape engages in the jungle, slightly increase clear-time (by virtue of getting to camps a couple seconds quicker) and would generally not affect laning.

10 Comments

Fiveofswords9/6/2015, 9:47:46 PM3 votes

you can jungle with her, but its not optimal. If you want to use her for a strange role, then you should be willing to make sacrifices. Cant have your cake and eat it also.

Also this WOULD effect her laning, because you grant her a new method of escape.

HaIlMonitor9/6/2015, 9:39:07 PM2 votes

It would also let her escape using jungle camps like someone else we all love.....Thresh. I love leo jungle it is a lot of fun and I approve.

IcyPepper9/6/2015, 10:15:19 PM2 votes

Er, I don't think that's a good idea. Here's a few changes that (maybe?) could help:

Her passive being proc'ed on monsters by herself. Highly unlikely, though, if I recall correctly Rito wants this to always be ally-only as to keep her identity as a protector.

However, I can see her W getting the Shyvanna treatment and dealing a little extra damage to monsters. Highly unlikely to affect jungle leashes since most Leona's take Q at level 1, and could help her early clears.

But the thing is, Leona is a ganking tank/fighter jungler, not a farming champion. Her ganks are amazing, but her clears are meh. And that is totally okay.

khorney9/6/2015, 9:44:44 PM1 votes

u must max out her w not her q or e becuase it does wave clear , qwewwrw something liek that

SaltyKracka9/6/2015, 10:07:16 PM1 votes

Nobody wants Leona jungle to be good.

Riot still remembers the days of Season 2 jungle Ali too well.