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No seriously we need to talk about Leonas 2 year old bugs

CarbonWyre·5/8/2014, 1:34:53 PM·3 votes·940 views

Leona has 4 extremely long standing bugs that are not being patched, and they have been there since her release almost.

1. Shield of Daybreak goes on CD when effect isn't used and target dies.

Remember when Nasus and Garen got that nice fix where if they turn on Siphon Strike/Decisive Strike and go to kill a minion but the minion dies first and the ability goes on CD without giving CS? This is that bug but with Shield of Daybreak

2. If Leona uses Shield of Daybreak to reset her auto attack timer while attacking the enemy nexus, she will automatically throw her Zenith Blade in the opposite direction.

Not much more to say, start auto attacking the enemy nexus and mid attack use Shield of Daybreak to reset your auto attack timer and it will put your Zenith Blade on CD by automatically casting it in the opposite direction of your auto attack.

3. Occasionally when Leona uses Shield of Daybreak to attack the enemy nexus while she is already attacking, if you use it when you auto attack is up instead of using it to reset the timer on your auto attack, Leona will do circles around the nexus as if it is out of range of her attack.

**4. Zenith Blades' warp is inconsistent on which abilities stop it and which don't. IE, Vi's Assault and Battery can't stop it until Leona lands, but Threshes' Flay can. Malphites Unstoppable Force can't stop it but Jannas' Howling Gale can. **

Seriously make up your mind, this is extremely inconsistent and causes a lot of problems while trying to learn her/play her.

5 Comments

Pledgie5/9/2014, 7:07:33 AM1 votes

Other abilities that interrupt her Zenith Blade are Draven's Stand Aside, Yasuo's Steel Tempest (the knock up from the third one), and Nami's Tidal Wave. Additionally Braum's Unbreakable prevents her from dashing past him to his allies. However, Vi and Malphite's ultimates are not considered as projectiles. With the creation of Yasuo and Braum, there has been a lot of clarification as to what is and what is not a projectile. So to help you understand Leona better, projectile based displacement abilities will interrupt zenith blade whereas targeted and free cast abilities do not. I'm a Leo main :D hope this helps.

Pledgie5/9/2014, 6:05:03 PM1 votes

I'll try my best to answer the other three.

  1. Honestly I'm not sure why the cooldown doesn't start until after you use the stun. The cooldown is already pretty long though and most Leona players don't sit on the stun unless they are chasing or are going to flash to get the stun off or something. But another ability I can think of that doesn't start cooldown is Jax's Empower.

  2. I have never experienced that problem when attacking a nexus. Maybe you might have misclicked?

  3. I can think of two different times when something similar to this occurred, but it didn't happen exactly the same way you described it.

  • I was attacking the nexus with my allies then their only downed inhibitor respawned and i started walking around the untargetable nexus.

  • I was attacking the nexus and an enemy minion wave spawned which forced me to walk around for a bit until i was close enough to the nexus for range of an auto attack.

Hope this helps.

Onimallar6/24/2014, 8:54:19 PM1 votes

Leona's Zenith Blade has had some major bugs in it in the past year.

It used to bring you TO the enemy even if they flashed/moved during the spell.

Now it brings you to the location they "were" and not to where they are going around 50% of the time, where the other 50% of the time it takes you to the enemy's location.

Riot, you need to address these things.