User blog comment:Lesanthosxia/My Opinion: Leona's teamplay and my built./@comment-569195-20111024195359/@comment-142.103.237.172-20111025234206

Thanks Asperon, i think your points are very valid. Where i am coming at right now is the kind of changing definition of support in the game. You are starting so see a lot of non traditional support plays or builds in the game. While it's true that the support used to be the healer on the team i don't think it's so clear cut any more. I have seen some very interesting support gangplank builds that can be quite effective. I have started to think of support as the guy who helps feed your carry early game and provides buffs and other significant non damage benefits to your team. For example: getting oracles and clearing wards (jungle can also do this), planting wards, getting useful aura items, using CV and harrassing the enemy to deny them exp and last hits. All of this gives your team an advantage over the enemy and this is what in my opinion he is describing in his Leona build. Perhaps i was being overly critical, i provided my list as some useful hints, some things i thought would make the build better. I perhaps should have used the term support type play. If the abundance of stuns lead to some early kills that would be much better in the long run than just enabling the carry to farm. My fear is that if you didn't get kills early on in bottom lane than your tank may end up a bit under farmed using this method. Anyway now my response to the OP's comments
 * 1) If you got boots of lucidity you would need another tenacity item which would probably be the upgrade to the philo stone. This means no Shurelya's Reverie so you would not max your CDR too bad.  Now that i think about it im not sure if this is good or not.  That movement buff would be nice on her.  I would probably make the decision based on the early laneing phase.
 * 2) Skill priority is good. I worry that maxing W first may over push your lane but if you have lots of armour from W and Glacial Shroud you can probably harass them at the tower.  Have to worry about ganks but a quick E,Q to the jungler would get your laning partner out of there.
 * 3) When ever i play support i always ask the tank if they are getting Aegis or if they want me to as some tanks like to get it. I think i missed the part where you said you usually have a AP support in one of the solo lanes so that would change my view.
 * 4) Even with wards im usually really hesitant not to have someone with CV but then usualy my teammates suck at warding. As Asperon says i play a lot of support and often find my self the only person on the team putting down god dam wards.  If you have a competent team all the more to you. It's also usefull however to your jungler if he wasn't to counter jungle or allows you to use your ult over a wall or shows a persons escape route through a the jungle.