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[2.4b] Leona Guide - So You Wanna Be A Leona Main? Patch 2.4C

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September 11, 2021 01:23

So You Wanna Be A Leona Main? Patch 2.4C

Do you like tankiness? Do you like our long crowd control (cc)? Do you like the sun? Do you hate the moon? And do you like redheads with giant badass orange shield? Then Leona the Radiant Dawn is for you.

Pros

Have Thicc A$$ Armour and Magic Resist
Short Cooldown
Perma Stun BABYYYYYY
Tower Diving MONSTER

Cons

Weak Against True Damages and Penetrations
No Disengage
Low Mana

Leona Build

Best Build Guide for Leona

Starting Items

Core Items

Against AD

Against AP

Boots & Enchants

My Personal Favourite

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Early Game

ALWAYS take sweeper first to eliminate wards early on and piss the enemy off and to keep pressuring using the lane brush. This is what I call, lane dominance.
Cloth Armor : Basic stat against AD (Attack Damage / physical damage) champ early
Null-Magic Mantle : Basic stat against AP (Ability Power / magic damage) champ early
Boots of Speed : Basic item for escaping, chasing, rotating, and roaming.

Mid Game

Zeke's Convergence : Good stat for tanking damage and buffing allies' attacks (Recently got a buff. A huge one at that)
Boots of your choice. Depending on the situation.
Frozen Heart : Good defend stat against AD champions and good stat for cooldown reduction.
Abyssal Mask : Good defend stat against AP champions, bonus magic damage to enemies nearby (can be synchronized with Leona 's Sunlight and also mana and HP regen.

Late Game

Boot Enchantments of your choice (depending on the situation, can also be completed after you finish Zeke's Convergence
Against AD champions:

Thornmail : Reflect damage and grievous wound (healing reduction). Good against healers and and lifestealers.
Iceborn Gauntlet : For Cooldown Reduction and slow effects.

Against AP champions :

Adaptive Helm : AP Damage Reduction.
Force of Nature : Stacking MR (Magic Resist) and MS (Movement Speed).

Leona Runes

Best Runes for Leona

Keystone

Aftershock

Domination

Weakness

Resolve

Conditioning

Inspiration

Hunter Genius

Keystone Rune

Aftershock : When you engage, you're kinda invulnerable until you press your 2Eclipse
This will help reducing Leona 's damage taken and also a burst of damage around her after 2.5 seconds that deals magic damage but scale with your max HP.
Font of Life : This rune is good for a lot of tanks to give your allies free lifesteal but it can be countered with anti-heal so... I honestly like thicc Leona better.

Domintaion Rune

Weakness : It synchronizes with Leona 'sSunlight and dealing more damage to hardstuck stepsister is ALWAYS a good option.

Resolve Rune

Conditioning : Good against a team with a good team comp. Since you're gonna need both AR (Armor) and MR (Magic Resist) against them.
Hunter Titan : Good against a team with high crowd control (cc) to lock you down in a place.
Adaptive Carapace : Good against a team with a bad team composition.
Loyalty : Low value. Don't take it. You want Leona to be thicc so she can engage and ignore people's damage

Inspiration Rune

Hunter Genius : Cooldown Reduction is ALWAYS good for perma CC
Pathfinder : Good if you roams a lot.
Pack Hunter : Ima chase you boi and I'm gonna be rich AF! jk. Good for bonus movement speed and a little bit of bonus gold.

Skill Order

How to distribute skill points

Sunlight - Passive

Shield Of Daybreak

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Eclipse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Zenith Blade

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Solar Flare

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Flash

To Increase your Mechanics and Mobilities.

Ignite

You're melee range and you're always appear on their face so... Why not? This is good for Anti-heal and damaging an enemy

Heal

More movement speed and more insane saves for your team. Can be countered by anti-heal and CC tho :/

Exhaust

Good for reducing damage dealt by enemies and slowing them. 1 target only btw

Barrier

If you're THAT ego

Ghost

I'm FAST AF BOIII!! Still FAST AF BOII!! COME GET SOME!! I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAST I REALLY AM! I'M FAST AF BOI! Aight Ima stop. Still, this is good for chasing enemy squishies and escape alone.

Smite

Jungle Leona? It works on pc so... who knows? ;)

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

1st

Auto Attack Reset Combo

Good for eliminating wards and eliminating towers.
Good to deal a 'stunning' amount of bonus damage. Get it? Cause her 1 Shield Of Daybreak stuns people? Nevermind.

3rd

1st

Ult

2nd

Full Initiating Combo (CC Chain)

Ideally, you want to use this combo on enemy champion with less or no tenacity (CC reduction) at all.
The stuck stepsi- i mean, champion cannot be unstuck from the CC chain.

3rd

Ult

1st

Against Tenacity Champions

While on midair from your Zenith Blade , quickly cast your Solar Flare .
This will ensure that your CC chain will hit the targeted enemy hard.

What are Tenacity champions?

Basically, tank champions (especially Garen 's Courage ) and people that use Hunter Titan for their rune and people who have Mercury's Treads .

3rd

Flash

Surprise Long Range Initiating Combo

You can't cast [flash] during your Zenith Blade animation but you cancast right before your Zenith Blade animation. So be very quick for this combo.
Can be used to chase someone and tell them, "You have no escape you little RAT!!"
Can extend your Zenith Blade 's range.
Can give your enemy a heart attack.

1st

Flash

Surprise Initiating Combo

This combo is super good if you have multiple targets and if your Zenith Blade is not ready yet especially when you're in brush.

3rd

Flash

1st

Changing Target

Good when the enemy have support that have a lot of tenacity and thicc shield.
You engage on high tenacity / someone who have HUGE shield on them with your 3 Zenith Blade but SIKE! That's not your REAL TARGET.
You [flash] > Shield Of Daybreak towards the one that have no shield on them and have low tenacity.
This will also helps you to target someone who are further away than your initial target.

3rd

Flash

1st

Ult

2nd

Full Changing Target Combo

Right after this combo is finished, just spam your abilities when needed. ALWAYS find the right abilities on the right time

3rd

Ult

2nd

1st

Changing Target to SUPER FAR enemy

Glorious Enchant :This is not really necessary.
Right after you Zenith Blade a target, you Ult Solar Flare on your actual target, walk on them while they're stunned and stun them again.

1st

3rd

Close Combat Engage

This can be used if a melee champions are face-checking a brush you're in.

1st

3rd

Ult

2nd

Close Combat Engage (Full)

This can be used if a melee champions are face-checking a brush you're in especially if it's a definite kill.

Tips & Tricks

DON'T BE A FRIGGIN' COWARD! You're a Leona with THICC @$$ ARMOUR! JUST DO IT! You need a mindset, "Ima make them suffer the whole game"! Be Aggressive (Once you hit lv3)! TRADE! TRADE! TRADE!
Lane Dominance : You gotta conquer the brush in your lane. If the enemy is trying to get inside, MAKE THEM SUFFER! If they warded it, use your sweeper. If they randomly cast abilities in the brush, dodge it or MAKE THEM SUFFER for it!
When tower diving, take the tower aggro before you let your team in or else your team will die for nothing.
Keep CCing your enemies! Let your team do the damage especially with bonus damage they git from your Weakness andSunlight
Freeze the wave for the team!
During your Zenith Blade 's animation, you can also cast another 1 of your abilites including your Ult Solar Flare
If your 3 Zenith Blade is hit by multiple targets, Leona will dash to the last one hit.
Only the last one hit by your 3 Zenith Blade is rooted.
Your 3 Zenith Blade is easily hit whenever the enemy is Auto Attacking and casting abilities with delays like Jhin 's Deadly Flourish , Jinx 's Zap! , and Ashe 's Volley .

Appreciation

Thank you guys for all the supports. I GREATLY appreciate it! Even though I'm only and Emerald player (used to be Diamond 3), you guys still watch my guide. I just wanna say, for you support mains out there, you guys ARE AWESOME! Thanks for even exist and make our day. Wild Rift is a competitive game, winning and losing is just a part of it so KEEP YOURSELF MOTIVATED and BE DETERMINED! That's all from me! Enjoy playing your new main, Leona , the Radiant Dawn.

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[2.4b] Leona Guide - So You Wanna Be A Leona Main? Patch 2.4C

So You Wanna Be A Leona Main? Patch 2.4C

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Leona Build

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Summoner Spells

When to take which summoners

Combos

Learn how to maximize the champions potential

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