Talk:Leona/@comment-4525580-20111225233543/@comment-4046013-20111226095759

CDR is just too good on Leona to put it off. More CDR means less time spent doing wiffle bat damage and more time spent bathing the battlefield with sunlight and crowd control. And when Leona dies, it's probably not because of CC as much as it is because of bad playing by either her or her team. If you're getting CCed, then it should be because you've already successfully initiated, and you should still live more than long enough to rotate your skills whether you've got tenacity or not. And you should rotate them again before the teamfight is over, because you're at 40% CDR and ready to rock.

I used to always run Mercury's on Leona, but I got hooked on Ionians after running them once or twice. There's no other way to get that much CDR that quickly, and the MR wasn't missed (Eclispe), and the Tenacity wasn't missed as much as I'd expected, either. ymmv.