Talk:Leona/@comment-5209745-20130529124028/@comment-1227858-20130602153544

If you want to buy anything "offensive" on her, buy Sunfire Cape. It gives you huge advantage in terms of damage. People underestimate Sunfire's damage. As Leona you always sit in the middle of fight. If the teamfight lasts 15 seconds and you stay close at least 2 people for the whole time, you've just dealt about 1200 dmg with Sunfire. (reduced by MR) That's much. Plus it gets you more tanky (HP + Armor is always welcomed).

Don't go bruiser Leona. She sucks hard and you won't be able to carry with her. Don't buy ANY AP items either, her AP ratios are so low. If you get ahead early you can go something like Philosopher's -> Ruby Sighstone -> Sunfire -> Bulwark (or Bulwark first if they have more magic damage) In soloq junglers don't get Bulwark often. Locket of the Iron Solari is also great item on her. You should consider getting it instead of Sunfire if you wan't to play more supportive role. It's good beause it gives you tankiness + CDR, and the Kindlegem is pretty cheap and gives you nice advantage early.

I don't think I have to say that Ruby Sighstone is not enough in terms of vision. You should ALSO buy wards. So if you have spare gold you can always invest it in vision. And yes, vision can win you a game easily, that's why people carry themselves with supports in soloq. If you feel like enemies are warding too much consider buying Oracle and clearing them. It's not alway worth in soloq, especially in lower ratings, because enemies don't ward much. And if you'll clear like 2-3 wards with whole Oracle, it won't be worth it's price. But if you see enemy with Sightstone + 5 wards in his backpack, that's when you shoud get it. You should always keep pink ward at Drake (and Baron after about 20th minute) and deny enemy's vision there.

Well, but back to the topic. If you have too much gold with support (which you shouldn't have to be honest... but whatever) don't think about building damage and carrying the game. That's bad way of thinking. You'll be much more useful for your team if you build supportive tank and ward as much as you can. That's why in high level tournaments supports often don't have anything besides Boots, gp10 and Sightstone at 25th minute mark. And only on certain supports like Zyra or Elise (which have are more "carry support") they buy some damage later. Of course you don't have to ward THAT much in solo and you don't have to buy Oracles THAT often, but consider doing so instead of thinking "Hurrrr durrr I'm mighty Leona, I stole my ADC's 5 kills so I'm gonna carry now".