Support

Leona Build 26.22

Leona exists to start fights, never to finish them, and that hard engage keeps her a comfortable pick at 51.5% and on the way down. The combo is a full lockdown chain, Zenith Blade to dash in and pin the target, the Shield of Daybreak stun to lock them down, then her ultimate dropped on top so a carry can walk up and end them. Land the whole thing and they are stuck in place long enough to die. Whiff the engage, though, and she is left standing there as a walking shield.

#19 of 105 support this patch · 7.9k games

Win rate51.5%−0.2Games7.9kPick rate8.5%Ban rate8.0%Last 8 patches−1.0 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 65%AD 28%True 7%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 51.5% WR

Plated Steelcaps SkillsW›E›Q Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

AatroxTopB50.4%AhriMidA51.4%AkaliMidB49.6%AkshanMidC49.0%AlistarSupportS52.6%AmbessaTopC47.9%AmumuJungleC49.3%AniviaMidB50.1%AnnieMidA52.1%ApheliosAD CarryB49.5%AsheAD CarryB49.5%Aurelion SolMidA51.7%AuroraMidA51.7%AzirMidD47.7%BardSupportC49.2%Bel'VethJungleS52.5%BlitzcrankSupportA52.0%BrandSupportC48.2%BraumSupportA51.2%BriarJungleB50.0%CaitlynAD CarryC48.0%CamilleTopB50.5%CassiopeiaMidB50.0%Cho'GathJungleA50.8%CorkiAD CarryB50.6%DariusTopB50.4%DianaJungleB49.8%Dr. MundoTopA51.0%DravenAD CarryA51.4%EkkoMidA52.0%EliseJungleB50.3%EvelynnJungleA51.2%EzrealAD CarryD46.4%FiddlesticksJungleB50.3%FioraTopA51.7%FizzMidB50.4%GalioMidB50.2%GangplankTopA52.3%GarenTopA50.9%GnarTopC48.8%GragasTopB49.8%GravesJungleB49.5%GwenTopB50.6%HecarimJungleA51.0%HeimerdingerTopA51.3%HweiMidA51.8%IllaoiTopC49.0%IreliaTopB49.9%IvernJungleB49.9%JannaSupportA51.0%Jarvan IVJungleC49.2%JaxTopB50.1%JayceTopD47.7%JhinAD CarryB50.2%JinxAD CarryA51.7%K'SanteTopD47.2%Kai'SaAD CarryB49.7%KalistaAD CarryB49.9%KarmaSupportC48.0%KarthusJungleC48.8%KassadinMidA51.7%KatarinaMidS52.6%KayleTopA51.9%KaynJungleB50.4%KennenTopA52.0%Kha'ZixJungleC49.2%KindredJungleA51.4%KledTopA51.0%Kog'MawAD CarryA51.4%LeBlancMidA52.0%Lee SinJungleC48.3%LeonaSupportA51.5%LilliaJungleA51.9%LissandraMidB50.3%LockeMidC49.1%LucianAD CarryC49.1%LuluSupportB49.8%LuxSupportB49.4%MalphiteTopA51.0%MalzaharMidB49.7%MaokaiSupportA52.0%Master YiJungleB49.9%MelMidD47.3%MilioSupportB49.4%Miss FortuneAD CarryB49.8%MordekaiserTopA51.1%MorganaSupportA51.4%NaafiriJungleB50.4%NamiSupportB49.6%NasusTopB49.4%NautilusSupportB50.0%NeekoSupportC48.4%NidaleeJungleA52.0%NilahAD CarryS53.7%NocturneJungleB50.2%Nunu & WillumpJungleA51.6%OlafTopB49.4%OriannaMidD46.8%OrnnTopB50.9%PantheonTopB50.5%PoppySupportS53.7%PykeSupportB50.2%QiyanaJungleD47.4%QuinnTopC48.5%RakanSupportS52.4%RammusJungleS53.9%Rek'SaiJungleA52.1%RellSupportA52.1%Renata GlascSupportB50.3%RenektonTopC49.0%RengarJungleC49.1%RivenTopA50.9%RumbleTopC48.6%RyzeMidD46.5%SamiraAD CarryB49.9%SejuaniJungleA51.1%SennaSupportB50.7%SeraphineSupportB50.1%SettTopA52.1%ShacoJungleB50.7%ShenTopS52.9%ShyvanaJungleS53.4%SingedTopA51.3%SionTopA51.4%SivirAD CarryB50.6%SkarnerJungleA52.2%SmolderAD CarryA50.9%SonaSupportA51.3%SorakaSupportA51.2%SwainSupportB50.7%SylasMidC48.2%SyndraMidB49.9%Tahm KenchSupportC47.9%TaliyahJungleA50.9%TalonJungleA50.9%TaricSupportB51.0%TeemoTopA51.1%ThreshSupportB50.6%TristanaAD CarryB49.7%TrundleTopC48.4%TryndamereTopB50.1%Twisted FateMidB50.5%TwitchAD CarryB49.9%UdyrJungleA51.5%UrgotTopA51.3%VarusAD CarryC48.2%VayneAD CarryA51.4%VeigarMidC48.1%Vel'KozSupportA52.2%VexMidA52.4%ViJungleB49.6%ViegoJungleC49.0%ViktorMidB49.8%VladimirMidB50.8%VolibearTopB49.9%WarwickJungleA52.4%WukongJungleB50.1%XayahAD CarryS53.0%XerathMidA51.7%Xin ZhaoJungleA52.3%YasuoMidC48.5%YoneMidC49.1%YorickTopC47.9%YunaraAD CarryB49.5%YuumiSupportC48.2%ZaahenTopB50.2%ZacJungleA51.0%ZedMidC49.1%ZeriAD CarryA51.6%ZiggsAD CarryA51.4%ZileanSupportB50.5%ZoeMidA51.6%ZyraJungleS52.7%

LoL ClassicSee how Leona was built in the classic eraLeona Classic Build

When Is Leona Strongest?

The mid-game item window is the high point of the curve, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Leona wins by turning that window into kills on the enemy carry, since her whole value is landing an engage her team follows up before the game slows into scaling teamfights.

Game timeline · Leona drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:05

Ambush zone5:24–6:54 Power spike 12:36

12:36

14:22

12:36

21:37

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 54/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~3.6k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Plated Steelcaps · 12:36

Leona Item Build

Leona is a full-engage tank support who dives onto a target and chains crowd control until her team collapses on it. The build stacks armor, magic resist, and health so she survives diving the backline while her lockdown holds enemies in place.

Standard loadout · Leona The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 100g

Health Potion×2

Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Plated Steelcaps64% · 51.7%

Mercury's Treads36% · 52.2%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.K

Kaenic Rookern54658.1%B

Bandlepipes1.2k55.4%A

Abyssal Mask15055.3%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.B

Bandlepipes1.2k55.4%F

Frozen Heart36852.7%T

Thornmail1.6k52.4%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.O

Oracle Lens7.8k51.6%S

Stealth Ward10439.4%

Best Leona Runes

Aftershock is the right call for an engage tank, since it fires the instant she locks someone down and turns her into a wall for the seconds that decide the fight. Every all-in she opens with a stun or a root sets it off, padding her resistances exactly when she dives in. Build the rest for pure durability so she can commit first and live.

The pre-game page Aftershock · Resolve + Precision · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Resolve Primary

AftershockAfter immobilizing an enemy champion gain defenses and later deal a burst of magic damage around you.

Font of Life91% · 51.8%

Second Wind45% · 50.9%

Overgrowth45% · 51.0%

Keystone plus three minors from Resolve, two from Precision, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Precision Secondary

Legend: Haste41% · 50.9%

Triumph41% · 50.9%

Stat shards Offense

Ability Haste+8 Ability Haste

Flex

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +8Ability Haste+20–180 Health (by level)

She builds pure tank and utility, opening Locket of the Iron Solari before stacking the team-first pieces led by Knight's Vow. Once Knight's Vow comes online by roughly 22 minutes, her engages start swinging fights and not just her own lane. No one spike defines the game, so just play it straight. Round it out with health and aura items so she can flip a fight and still survive the dive she started.

Leona Skill Order

Eclipse eats the points at 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9, and that pick tells you what this support is buying: durability through the engage, at the price of Shield of Daybreak sitting on its level 1 rank while Zenith Blade climbs to 13.

Skill order · Leona R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›W

W›E

E›Q

QMax W first; E at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q1max 1

W34579max 9

E281012max 12

R611max 11

Leona Abilities

Sunlight is the passive nobody credits, every spell she lands marks the target so her teammates deal bonus magic damage when they pile on. Eclipse is what keeps her upright mid-dive, a burst of resistances that then detonates for area damage if enemies are still standing next to her.

Abilities · Leonapatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

SunlightPassiveP

Shield of DaybreakMax lastQ

EclipseMax 1stW

Zenith BladeMax 2ndE

Solar FlareUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

EclipseMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 3rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+30 per rank+40% APlv 355lv 485lv 5115lv 7145lv 9175Cooldown-1 per ranklv 314slv 413slv 512slv 711slv 910sConstant at every rankCost60same at all ranks

Leona Base Stats

Base stats · LeonaPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD60+3AS0.625+2.9%MS335Range125HP646+101HP58.5+0.85Armor43+4.8MR32+2.05MP302+40MP56+0.8

Leona Matchups

Leona thrives on locking a target down, so enemies with disengage, shields, or the range to poke her before she jumps make her engages costly. Immobile carries who cannot break her chain of stuns are the targets she wants to catch.

Lane matchups · Leona click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs supports 01Level 2, chain Zenith Blade into your stun to all-in squishy enchanters.02Deny lane vision then flank; enchanters cannot escape your Zenith Blade root.03Teamfights: chain your crowd control onto the carry, outlasting enchanter shields. Win rate by game lengthLeona overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min50.9%20–28 min53.3%28–35 min50.7%Over 35 min49.3%

Disengage and poke supports like Shen, Elise, and Rakan can keep her from ever landing a clean engage, so look for flanks or wait for them to burn their escape. Her ultimate is a reliable answer once it is up, pinning a target no matter how slippery they are. She feasts on immobile enemies and greedy positioning, and against squishier lanes such as Camille, Xerath, and Bard a single Zenith Blade combo can decide the fight on the spot.

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