Talk:Leona/@comment-75.75.170.166-20120404053848/@comment-69.133.100.180-20120404061417

It's one of those things. Tryndamere's skillset heavily incentivizes you to build AD/AS/crit, so you're given a little extra base stats in things you won't build. Leona's kit encourages you to build tanky, so they don't want to give you too much of an advantage by starting you off tougher than everyone else.

There are probably exceptions, but often times base stats are determined by how they think you'll build the champion based off their skills.