Talk:Leona/@comment-69.146.96.55-20120716233757/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120717033114

Remember that until you're at 1850+ ELO, (almost) everything is viable provided you play them correctly. That being said:

Top Leona is not a good idea at all: doesn't benefit from her passive, no harass, no sustain, no safe farm mechanism. High resistances only can't cut it on a top lane, you'll get pushed out early and the enemy will snowball on you. Her only good point is that she's a very good pusher and counters passive melee farmers with her eclips shield. Works well against a Fiora, Leblanc (but who takes Leblanc top?), and champs with no escape mechanism like Morde or Malzahar because of the ganks she can set up.

Jungle leona is actually very good, contrary to what some would think. She benefits well from a Wriggle, doesn't need to invest in armor seals, has 2 damaging AoEs that allow her to clear her jungle in timely manner that makes up for her lack of passive, her ganks at level 3+ are ridiculously good on all lanes and become almost sure kills at level 6, she can prevent counterjungling quite effectively slowing and stunning the enemy until your teammate arrives, and the gold income means that she'll become a terror in teamfights. Downsides are that she isn't particularly fast in the jungle, she remains a single target CC tank which might not work with all team comps, she still remains a tanky-support-ish champ even when fed so you will need some DPS on your lanes to make up for the fact that she doesn't deal that much damage, and you could place a different champ in jungle and send her at botlane.