Talk:Leona/@comment-75.72.55.220-20120628072135

Been having a lot of succes with Leona. Due to the huge free resistances from W you can you can just build some CDR and rely on the health you get from the standard support items (shurelya's, hog/randuins/locket, aegis) and still be very tanky. Though I like to throw on a giant's belt late game.

The damage from the shield exploding is surpisingly large, and tends to result in a good number of accidental killsteals. The ult can mess up an entire team when placed right, and the cooldown is so short and the range so long that you can pretty much use it whenever for to snag runners.

The only thing that makes me apprehensive as Leona is a lane matchup that can dish out way more harass than you can safely absorb, since you have no sustain and no range aside from an all-in gap closer. Just the philo is usually enough to tolerate a lot of harass, but sometimes it isn't. For example, Lulu seems to give me trouble. Best case in that scenario seems to be to get in their faces right away so that they're intimidated, to avoid being pushed to the tower and poked to death.