User blog comment:StrategicMagic/Leona - Wasted in Support/@comment-4022742-20130411212829

Fallicy, Leona was specifically designed to be a support character, that you don't know how to handle champions like Leona, Blitz and the like, do not make them "useless"...

Secondly your summary of why leona should be played on a different lane seem to hinge on 1 thing. Gold, which I and a lot of other people, have no trouble generating in bot lane.

Sure she could be used to lock down hyper carries in top lane. But why not just bring your own hyper carry there instead? She has wasted potential in top lane because she has burst oriented CC, but not burst oriented damage.