Talk:Leona/@comment-26359415-20150523190952/@comment-8506165-20150609020422

There is insufficient counterplay to Leona, but there are ways to deal with her. They just don't work as well as they should. Poke her ADC if you can, not her - she'll just shrug it off and regen it, whereas it sticks a lot better to her ADC making it harder for her to all-in. If you can interrupt E, that cockblocks her completely, but it's much too hard to do that compared to the difficulty of hitting it. Call for jungler ganks if you can - if your jungler is camping bot and theirs isn't it makes Leona's job much harder.

Pick Janna, Morgana or Alistar if you're support yourself against Leo. All of them counter Leona to an extent, although a good Leona will know how to deal with all of them (with Janna, it's a mana/reflex war, with Morgana it's about baiting E, with Alistar it's about knowing his cooldown windows) or if all else fails Nautilus because although you're not as good in lane as her, you do scale better into late if you can survive laning while fulfilling a similar function. Avoid Karma/Sona/Zyra et al. unless you're experienced - get caught once and you're probably dead. Thresh is a special case because his kit is ridiculously good but his base stats are trash - a good Thresh can handle the lane, a bad Thresh will just feed.

At low elos, rely on the fact most Leonas suck and they're picking her having been forced into support as "the freelo pick". If you're just better, you can win. At higher elo, it's harder - most supports there are at least decently experienced and you're more likely to run into support mains. But most low-elo Leonas suck at using her E, time their all-ins badly, will screw up her ult frequently and even skill wrongly in extreme cases. Abuse that, if you can. But she is still Leona, so be careful.

Unfortunately, as the AD you depend more on your support to counter Leona rather than doing it yourself. The most some ADs can do is interrupt her E. Otherwise, just respect her zone, try and dodge E and don't stand near your support once she's 6. Good luck! As a support main who refuses to jump on the Leona train until she's balanced, I still find her tricky to deal with, but it is possible even if it's way harder than it should be.