Talk:Leona/@comment-187.41.105.87-20120623194718/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120624013620

Imagine you are the lane support. You can't heal/shield your carry, you arent farming, you provide no map control/global utility. You are completely useless, so the only option left is harassing, but how are you going to harass? You are melee, your only ranged ability is your ult -which has high CD- and Zenith Blade, that puts you right next to the AD carry at the mercy of CC and autoatacks.

Now Leona is tanky and all, but that shield is only 40 resist, which translates into 60% damage reduction, you can still die pretty easily, especially against an AD carry. So what happens if you don't kill the carry? You die, that's what happens, you die and you feed the opposing carry a kill, the opposing support an assist and you own carry either dies or finds himself 1v2.

Leona is an all-in sort of support: either you get your varry kill or you were better off playing another champ.