Talk:Leona/@comment-5490997-20121117125522

So I've been looking at the new items/masteries and I personally think things look pretty grim for Leona as a support. Not so grim that she won't be viable, but definitely grim enough to say she gains little to nothing from the new items/masteries while all the Soraka's and Sona's are getting huge upgrades to their gear.

I mean most of the new support items focus on magic resist, AP and mana regen. Magic resist might be decent against those Sona's and Soraka's, but the other 2 stats are pretty useless on Leona.

Besides that, there is a new mastery that gives gold for poking champs, something Leona won't be able to take advantage of and considering poking was already a bit of an issue I can see poking supports become a lot more viable as they will simply get more gold than the not so pokey supports.

Not to mention Mikael's Crucible and (to a smaller degree) Mercurial Scimitar, which will pretty much allow any champ in the game to counter support Leona.

Add in the fact you will have to trade HoG for Kage's and/or Philo and I only see Leona lose a lot of tankyness and with that also lose most of her "kill lane" power.

Maybe I'm being overly negative here, but I really don't see many items that will help Leona as a support while all the other supports seem to be getting items that can help defeat "kill lanes".