User blog comment:Lesanthosxia/My Opinion: Leona's teamplay and my built./@comment-84.203.38.250-20111024175751

I was playing Leona quite a bit during the free week lately and am quite tempted to buy her (once I get the IP points farmed). It's just so much fun to play her once you get all her abilities.

The main problem I found with Leona is that she has very little by way of health regeneration. I found a big regen item like Warmogs or Force of Nature very useful on her as otherwise it is just so easy to get your health slowly chipped away. The Philosopher's Stone will just about tide you through for the first few levels but beyond that it just seems to take her an eternity to regenerate her health after any sort of fight ending up with a lot of time spent heading back to base to regen.

To counter her early game you don't need to kill her, just chip away about 50% of her health safely and she is forced to either go back to heal or hide at the tower waiting for her Philo stone to heal her up. Especially with her need to close to stun, it makes it very risky to initiate on her early when not on full health since you will almost certainly take a little damage at least. I would be interested to hear if you have had a similar problem as your build doesn't seem to have much by way of regen as when I was playing her stacking early regen was one of those "ahah" moments where suddenly she seemed to work as she was supposed to.

Anyway, nice post, thank for writing it and keep up the good wor :D