Talk:Leona/@comment-4141812-20111106180724/@comment-4046013-20111111084804

I also don't get all the complaining about her AP scaling. It's not that unusual to land all of her skills in one teamfight... the scalings add up to 1.9. One skill is a single-target skill. One is a line shot, and the other two are medium-large AOEs. Much better than Alistar's, and people still keep asking whether he should build Deathcap. I don't get it.

Of course she's not an AP carry, but it doesn't hurt to get an Abyssal Scepter mid-to-late game and make better use of her skills and passive.

The great thing about Leona is that by using W judiciously, you can just stack health early-to-mid game and take only small amounts of resistances from masteries/runes/boots. You can start with Philo, HoG, Merc's, and Warmog's, for example (she needs HP5 pretty badly). Frozen Mallet is a pleasure too. She farms like a beast at 9 if you max W, too. I've found that with dual-GP10, she comes back just fine even if you screw up early. Even when I mess up early game, I usually feel like a real asset during team fights.

Depending on W so much seems like her main weakness, but of course you initiate with (W+)E, and then you flash out if you have to. It works for me.