Summary
- 1 Champion Presentation
- 2 Recommended items
- 3 Tips
- 4 Tricks
- 4.1 Tank
- 4.2 Bruiser
- 4.3 Magician
- 5 References
Champion presentation

Recommended items
Tips
Playing with
- Lead the charge and mark your enemies with
Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
Shield of Dawn and
Zenith Sword form a powerful combination of attack.
- You can absorb a large amount of damage by using
Eclipse, but you have to stay close to enemies to get the extra duration.

- When
Active lioness
Eclipse, you have three seconds to escape her before she deals damage.
- Only enemies in the middle of
Solar Flare looks stunned, so you'll be able to dodge it if you're fast.
Tricks
Use of skills- to maximize
Sunlight, try to use your abilities right after an ally explodes your passive.
Sunlight is activated with any damage, as long as it sources it, even with an area damage per second ability like
Hopelessness
Shield of Dawn can be used to destroy a tower more quickly or to get the last hit on some minions, as it resets the basic attack animation and deals additional damage, even to structures.
- A standard combo starts by activating
Eclipse at a distance and use
Zenith Sword to approach the enemy champion, activating
Shield of Dawn in the air.
- It is a good idea to prioritize the level of
Eclipse. This is the most damaging skill in your kit and has the most significant bonus when leveling up (goes from 20 to 60 armor and 60 to 240 damage).
- It is also important to have a point or more in
Shield of the Dawn due to its usefulness to start or continue the combo, but continue leveling up this skill does not have great improvements.
- Maximize
Zenith Sword after
Eclipse is the best option if you are looking to help clear out waves of minions.
- It is also important to have a point or more in
Zenith Sword can even be used on enemies you can't see, so it's good for chasing enemies that are made invisible (
Evelynn o
Teemo) or escaped by jumping a wall.
- However,
Zenith Sword will not reveal the enemy in stealth so it cannot be applied
Shield of Dawn to continue the combo. Even so,
Eclipse can damage the enemy.
- However,
- Spell Shields, like the
Veil of the Banshee, will prevent your skills from applying
Sunlight, but it won't prevent you
Sword of the Zenith move you towards destiny or let
Eclipse apply your defense upgrade.
Sword of Zenith and
Eclipse can be used to apply
Sunlight on minions so your line partner can take down minions faster, especially with AoE spells.
- Use
I flash while
Sword of Zenith is ending its animation making the range of the skill extend and make it harder for enemies to dodge.
- If the line mate of
Leona is ahead (feed) compared to the other enemies, and can stay in a 1 vs 2 online,
Leona can start roaming when she gains some movement speed and a gold spawn item.
- The massive amount of Crowd Control makes it easy for her to get kills, especially when
Solar Flare is available.
- The massive amount of Crowd Control makes it easy for her to get kills, especially when
- The skills of
Leona have a large amount of base damage, especially
Eclipse. Use this perk to kill fragile characters that underestimate your explosive damage.
Leona has the ability to clear enemy Sentinels quickly after they are placed: Basic Attack, Activate
Shield of Dawn, and immediately attack the sentry again.
- Note that
Leona will slide behind the enemy when using
Sword of Zenith, even if it dies while the animation occurs.
Replica pairs well with your kit as it is an excellent starter with lots of strong crowd controls.
Leona can be built in a number of ways by being better as support tank. Some less common builds include more offensive items, utilizing their crowd control and natural resistance.
Tank
- With defensive objects,
Leona can be very difficult to kill. Armor, magic resistance, and health help make her a very good front line.
Not only does Leona help initiate team fights, but she can also block / knock out a target with her large amount of stuns and immobilizations.
- Thanks to
Eclipse provides
Leona has a large amount of armor and magic resistance, she generally improves her survivability by buying life items compared to normal tanks that usually buy armor and magic resistance.
- El
Relic Shield or the
Old Coins are good options to start with
Leona depending on how she is going to play.
Relic Shield helps to increase the survivability of her and her linemate during the lines phase and allows to build the Face of the Mountain Face of the Mountain that provides a decent shield and the possibility of nuking depending on who you use the active.
- On the other hand, the active Talisman of Ascension's Talisman of Ascension's allows you to engage. The choice is based on the composition of the team and its needs.
- Equipment items with
Lioness include
Reliquary of the Iron Solari, Sightstone, and Talisman of Ascension Talisman of Ascension, grants a variety of useful stats and assets for the team.
- It tienes
Randuin's Omen, try to use his active ability alongside
Eclipse.
Iceborn Gauntlet, while a bit expensive and rare, will allow you to keep targets locked for a long time due to area slow, as well as providing you with good defensive stats. Although you can't take advantage of the passive very often like other champions, the utility it provides is sufficient.
Bruiser
Leona has a very high defense and utility. Using the correct build and item combinations, she can sneak into enemy lines and be a great threat to her attackers. While playing as a laner or jungle solo, you can use this build to achieve this. The best options for this role contain a mix of damage, cooldown reduction, and defense.
- With a line mate,
Shield of Dawn becomes the base ability of
Leona, which provides you with the ability to reset basic attack, bonus damage, and a stun.
Shield of Dawn works well with combo-related items.
Brightness,
Trinity force e
Voracious Hydra provide
Leona a little explosive damage (burst). Online, it allows you to do very strong damage exchanges -
Zenith Sword allows you to eliminate the distance between you and your enemy, use a basic attack with extra damage, and
Shield of Dawn resets your basic attack for another empowered hit.
- Note that
Shield of Dawn has a great base cooldown. Know how to use your abilities to maximize the extra damage of the
Brightness.
- Note that
Mago
- With his excellent crowd control and tankiness, and all his abilities that scale with skill power,
Leona gains the ability to be an offensive tank mage with explosive damage.
- In order to be able to manifest the true magic damage of
Leona, large amounts of magical penetration are required, as her abilities are not highly scaled. It is also important to have a large amount of armor and magic resistance, so that
Eclipse can keep her alive while it activates and explodes, and you have a decent amount of health to protect her large amount of stamina. Finally, it is important to increase your ability to cause explosive damage (burst). That said, the core items for
Leona are Sorcerer's Boots Sorcerer's Boots,
Haunted Mask,
Curse of the Liche
Sunfire Cloak and
Negatron Cloak.
- If you are up against an enemy where most of their damage is based on AD, consider substituting
Negatron Cloak with
Negatron Cloak
- If you are up against an enemy where most of their damage is based on AD, consider substituting
- Some offensive options derived from core objects of
Leona son Cetro Abisal Cetro Abisal o
Cota de Espinas and
Liandry's Torment. Abyssal Scepter Abyssal Scepter is an excellent choice if you are up against the typical wizard champion like
Katarina o
Ziggs
Liandry's Torment is best purchased mid to late game, as it does not offer any magic penetration, and the passive is most effective during teamfights when area damage is
Leona can connect with enemies that are affected by her team's crowd control.
Void Staff is a possible item to replace Nether Scepter Nether Scepter or
Chainmail if your enemy is accumulating a lot of magic resistance. Generally, if the enemy is accumulating armor, you are doing a good job, reducing the need to increase your defense.
- Defensive options for
Lioness include
Randuin's Omen and
Veil of the Banshee. Slowing down
Randuin's Omen has a synergy activating
Eclipse, and is a great substitute for
Coat of Thorns if more defenses are needed. The spell shield of the
Veil of the Banshee is excellent for keeping
Lioness alive.
- The passive of
Randuin's Omen is typically used to double the damage per second of
Liandry's Torment, geared especially for melee champions.
- The passive of
Rabadon's Death Hat is a great mid to late game boost for
Leona and her offensive kit, but should not be purchased before having the
Curse of the Liche and a considerable amount of magical penetration.
- Because the most useful objects for
Leona does not provide cooldown reduction, it is best achieved through runes (especially glyphs and quintessence).
- Online,
Leona will attempt a combo with
Eclipse immediately followed by
Zenith Sword to jump next to you and use
Shield of Dawn to stun you and secure damage from
Eclipse.
- This combo is especially dangerous if done from a bush, always keep an eye on it.
Zenith Sword has a small hitbox and short range, staying behind or to the side can help you dodge it more easily.
- Si
Leona uses
Zenith Sword to cleanse the wave of minions, it can sometimes be advantageous to move to the end of its area of effect so that it hits you and puts it in a bad position.
- Always keep moving to make it harder for
Lioness use
Solar Flare to start and put your combo.
- Attack
Leona alone is always a good one, since she cannot make use of
Sunlight without a teammate.
- Any type of damage from the line mate
Leona can trigger bonus damage from
Sunlight, greatly increased damage taken. You try to force your line mate to use all his abilities before he activates the mark.
Leona is difficult to kill at the end of her combo due to the defensive stats provided by
Eclipse. Just try to kill her when you're sure you can.
- Most of the damage and survival of
Leona comes from
Eclipse. Try to keep your distance when you see it activated.
- It's hard to escape
Leona, but if you dodge her
Zenith Sword, with her low hitbox and remarkable cast time, she lacks the skills to keep chasing you. This, coupled with her slow movement speed, makes escaping her actually as easy as dodging an ability.
- Online,
Leona is very effective in surprising you from the bushes; Placing sentries on your bushes is very effective in reducing their zoning ability.
- Be careful when using pushing skills like
condemns the
Destroy Shot in
Leona when you use
Zenith Sword. If you use them before
Leona start her dash, she will be able to reach the last enemy champion hit. Instead, try to use the ability right when the dash starts, which will stop the animation and move it backwards.
- Remember
Zenith Sword places a
Leona behind her target regarding the point of view she had when using
Sword of Zenith. This can be exploited by knockdown abilities to place it under one of your team's towers, on your team, or to use
Condemn on a wall (as long as you are well positioned).