Talk:Leona/@comment-80.222.212.131-20110718231026/@comment-4165869-20110719025205

Interesting idea, but Riot was wanted to make, as they put it, a pure tank. That means low damage, and pretty low scaling. Since if you give a tank character the ability to do damage, people tend to try to go carry on said character and ignore tanking altogether.

I think as it stands Leona is meant to be in a duo lane with a damage deal to take advantage of her passive. So when Leona jumps on a target, the carry with her can burst the person down even faster.