Talk:Leona/@comment-8506165-20130910044925/@comment-7821545-20130930201156

Leona, no counterplay? Oh boy. If you've ever played Leona, you'd know she has a lot of weaknesses. Now, first I'd like to address your point about how "you can't focus her." The short answer is, yes, you definitely can. While it is true that Leona is considerably tankier than most supports, that doesn't mean you can't focus her. If she engages on you, say before level 6, and your support is decent enough to use their crowd control on her - and I'm not even mentioning the fact that Alistar's Q, Janna's Q, and Thresh's E all cancel the dash if timed correctly - she'll probably get to 50% health or lower, after which, assuming you have lifesteal runes as an ADC, you can simply get back to full health in about 30 seconds. This is Leona's first huge weakness - her lack of sustain. Which is why you should focus her if she attacks you. If she gets really low, she can't engage without dying. This also is why champions like Caitlyn and Ezreal do very well against Leona: because they can whittle down Leona's health with their poke and disengage with Arcane Shift and 90-Caliber Net. By the way, if you're not autoattacking Leona at level 1, you're doing it wrong. She honestly can't do much at level 1 and doesn't have the 30 armor/mr defensive boost till level 3. The last thing I'll say is that Leona is extremely susceptible to being ganked/getting baited. Leona has no means to disengage once she goes in, so you can "bait" her into going on you by stepping too close and then your jungler can come and get you a free kill. I know there's this whole stigma against focusing supports at lower elo, but if you ever watch high elo games, that's what they do because the supports are either squishier or have no escapes - and of course they don't run Barrier like ADCs do.

TL;DR: Focus and poke Leona since she has no sustain, then lifesteal your health back up. Leona is also very susceptible to ganks due to her "all-in" nature.