Decent leona build?

Missxkittymeww·9/11/2015, 6:12:40 PM·2 votes·1,465 views

Hello again my fellow league players & friends, I have a question that i would like to ask you all. Advice if you will. I just started with Leona and i am kind of afraid to take her in the real world (pvp) at this time without the proper runes and masteries. I have yet to purchase runes for her because i can not decide on how to build her correctly and effectively. For those of you who main Leona please do give me some input on how i should go on about for this build of hers.

Add some builds from in game as well if you have the time. I'd rather look to the community for help rather than "mobifire" or_ "lolpro"_. I would very much appreciate the help and thank you! Oh and last thing, you guys are amazing (just saying).

with love, -Ashley (missxkittymeww)

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EndlessSorcerer9/11/2015, 6:23:52 PM3 votes

http://www.probuilds.net/champions/Leona

Here is how some of the pro players build her. Might be worth looking into a few of their games to see what they take and build.

WhiteSpheres9/12/2015, 1:14:33 AM2 votes

item 3742 item 3111 item 3190 item 3102 item 3110 item 2045

Linthe9/11/2015, 6:31:44 PM2 votes

Yea... Sadly there is not a ton of variety on supports.

Sightstone
Starting item (shield, coin, spellthief). Leona starts relic shield.
Locket typically (co-ordinate with your jungler).
Boots
Then for Leona typically something tanky... health or armor.

GL :)

rescued9/13/2015, 8:40:58 PM2 votes

Hi! I am a Leona main and would love to help you learn her. ^^

I have rune and mastery pages made specially for her.

Runes I go:

Greater Mark of Attack Damage x9 Greater Seal of Armor x9 Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist x9 Greater Quintessence of Ability Power x1 Greater Quintessence of Health x1 Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed x1

Why this works:

The attack damage and attack speed help a lot during teamfights/fights. Since Leona cannot spam abilities, your main tool of damage is by autoattacking. Having extra damage on your auto attacks will help a lot and can secure a kill. The little ability power that you receive gives your abilities that little magic damage needed, while the armor, magic resist and health helps keep you alive. 80% of the time you will be building armor (especially in this meta) so the scaling magic resist will end up giving you more than the normal magic resist ones.

I added a screenshot of my mastery page for Leona that you can copy.

As for builds, this is what I tend to get:

item 1329 item 2045 item 3143 item 3401 item 3050 and the last item can be either item 3190 or item 3222 (Depending on what your team needs.)

Mobi boots are cheap and help you move around the map quicker to help teammates. Sightstone for vision, do not upgrade to Ruby unless you have nothing else to spend it on. Randiuns will help with crits and the active slow helps to escape/engage. Zekes is great for Leona atm, with the extra ability power, armor and the passive to help your teammates. Face of the Mountain is good for the active that you can help your carry survive. Locket is good for the AOE passive (if the enemy has a lot of AP) or you can build Mikaels for the active which can make or break a teamfight.

I use to build Frozen Heart on Leona but I exchanged that for Zekes because they nerfed Frozen Heart while making it more expensive plus the passive on Zekes is just so much better now with the ability power added.

If you need anymore tips and tricks, have questions or would like to watch me play Leona/or I can watch you, add me in game. ^^ Hope I helped!

EDIT: Forgot to add, 8/10 times I take instead of for kill pressure in lane. :)

Der Lindwurm9/12/2015, 12:10:28 AM1 votes

Lich bane or tri-force actually aren't bad choices for Leona - they turn her into more than just a CC threat later in the game. I usually can't afford them or don't have room for them, though.

My Leona build usually ends up something like: item 3401 item 2045 item 3068 item 3102 item 3111 + another item depending on the situation

item 3027 is good for everything she does, but trying to build that earlier in the game when you can really take advantage of it interferes so much with your progress building armor, resistance, speed, vision, etc.

For runes, I'd say you definitely want at least two gold income quintessences, but not everyone agrees I guess? And predominantly armor seals and magic resistance or ability power glyphs, of course. I don't think it really matters too much what you do with marks, to be honest, the returns will either be too low or it will boost something that doesn't help her that much.

Jofeyy9/11/2015, 11:54:29 PM1 votes

item 3089 item 3100 item 3742 item 3001 item 3083 item 3158

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KitsuneKrash9/13/2015, 12:56:51 AM1 votes

Personally for masteries, I like going 0/16/14 on my support tanks, that gives me decent takiness & far enough into utility to get Greed, Scavenger, & Wealth so I get more tanky a bit quicker.

Tho I've seen plenty go 0/30/0 on Braum & Leona