Leona
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Leona Build
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Leona Build Summary
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Starter Items
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Core Leona Items
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Summoner Spells
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Leona Matchups Overview
More Gameplay Tips for Leona Players
Tips and Tricks
Shield of Daybreak can be used offensively or defensively. Use it when engaging an enemy carry or to help your allied lane partner escape a gank.
Zenith Blade shoots an image of Leona's sword dealing damage to units it passes through and if it hits an enemy champion, Leona will dash to the last unit hit. Use this to get Leona to a squishy support in the rear or a carry that's farming effectively in lane.
Leona can cast Eclipse which provides her a boost of armor and magic resistance for 3 seconds, after which it deals magic damage to enemies around her. Use this during teamfights.
Leona FAQs
Q: What makes Leona one of the best supports in League of Legends?
A: Leona has a ton of hard CC abilities. She has 3 in total. Beyond that, she can take a huge amount of damage. This makes Leona one of the biggest threats in the game. Most of the time you will use your ranged CC to initiate fights and engage, but you can also play very defensively and stop your carry from getting dived.
Q: What is Leona's greatest strength?
A: Leona's greatest strength is her 3 stuns. She can often keep the enemy's best champion(s) stunned long enough to be burst down by her team. When Leona is on the battlefield, the enemy needs to focus on their positioning and try to flank or bait out your CC. Don't get out of position, and don't waste your abilities. If you can keep a cool head, you will do very well.
Q: How should I build Leona to carry my team?
A: In general, Leona benefits most from items and runes that increase her survivability and CC. You should get plenty of health, armor, magic resist, and cooldown reduction in any good Leona build. If you want to see specific Leona items and runes to combat particular enemy team comps, check out our more specific build guidance above. We keep our builds and stats updated with the current meta.
Q: What is Leona's greatest weakness?
A: The biggest weakness she has is her long cooldowns. This it somewhat mitigated by including CDR in your Leona build and by leveling her abiltiies up. However, it will always be true that you can do almost nothing while your abilities are on cooldown. She has a weak auto-attack and relatively little mobility without her E ability.
Q: What are Leona's greatest threats?
A: You can check out <a href="/champion/leona/counters/" target="_blank">Leona's counters</a> to see who her biggest threats are in the current meta and patch. In general, champions with good poke or true damage are very threatening to Leona. Additionally, champions with lots of burst and mobility to take out your carry before you can stun them are also very threatening to Leona and her team.
Additional Leona Build Insights
League of Legends Leona players will likely find her to be a complex champion to build out properly. You will find that her build varies when she is playing against either diversified or homogenous team compositions, indicating you should not follow the same Leona build every game of League of Legends
The best items to use in your champion's build include: Evenshroud, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. Those who added these pieces in their builds had a better win rate than players who went for other builds for Leona. Moreover, if you are battling a well-mixed enemy team comp, you should really consider grabbing yourself the Resolve, and Inspiration runes. In recent matches, she won the largest number of her games when built with these runes.
We calculated our Leona build guidance by analyzing 108,254 recently ranked League of Legends games with her selected. We only recommend the best winrate Leona builds that were built by ranked players enough times for us to reccomend them. With so many rounds in our data, we are very confident in our recommended builds.