Leona

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Comp identity — Support

Leans Attack — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Attacknatural · 90%
Catchworkable · 40%
Protectforced · 10%
Leona brings the frontline and engage that start the 5v5. Enough Catch sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive Sunlight marks enemies hit by her abilities; any ally's next damage on a marked target detonates bonus magic damage, rewarding coordinated engage.

Kit quirks

Passive Sunlight marks enemies hit by her abilities; any ally's next damage on a marked target detonates bonus magic damage, rewarding coordinated engage
W (Eclipse) is a self-shield-adjacent damage-reduction buff (not a shield) that also grants scaling bonus armor/MR, and extends its own duration if she's hit while it's up
R (Solar Flare) is a long-range (1200) delayed-detonation zone that slows everyone hit 80% and stuns anyone in the epicenter, making it a teamfight-starting AoE lock rather than a single-target root

How Leona actually performs in ranked solo queue · 131 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Support50% WR · 130.7 games
Bot50% WR · 0.1 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

NautilusSupport+1%

Hardest matchups

AlistarSupport-2%

Dragons & win rate

Win rate when Leona's team secured at least one of each drake, next to the all-champion rate in that same state. Teams that take dragons are usually already ahead, so every champ wins more with them — the honest read is the gap, i.e. whether Leona beats the average team that also has the drake. Single-drake samples are thin; treat small counts as suggestive.

Hextech60%vs 62% avg-2pp63g

Cloud50%vs 60% avg-10pp62g

Ocean53%vs 63% avg-9pp60g

Mountain (Earth)50%vs 59% avg-9pp56g

Infernal48%vs 60% avg-12pp50g

Chemtech71%vs 62% avg+9pp42g

Duo playbook

+ Samira (Support/Bot)
The level-3 spike is the key breakpoint — Samira's W can parry incoming poke and Leona's W shields through it — turning an even trade into a strong all-in; Leona's level-6 chain CC then buys enough time for Samira to stack her passive and unload her ultimate.
via Skill Capped ↗
+ Corki (Support/Bot)
Leona's chain CC (E root into Q or R stun) holds a target still long enough for Corki's E (Gatling Gun) to run its full 4-second channel and stack its armor/magic-resist shred to max, so a target that looks locked down for 'just a stun' actually eats a fully-ramped DPS window on top of it; Corki's W (Valkyrie) also lets him follow her engage in without walking through the enemy's poke first.
— DraftDojo analysis

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Leona — The Radiant Dawn

Class: Vanguard
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Physical
Positions: Support
Released: 2011-07-13 (V1.0.0.121)
Last changed: V25.20
Price: 225 BE · 260 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	646	+101	2363
Health regen (per 5s)	8.5	+0.85	22.95
Mana	302	+40	982
Mana regen (per 5s)	6	+0.8	19.6
Armor	43	+4.8	124.6
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	60	+3	111
Attack speed	0.625	+2.9%	0.933
Attack speed ratio	0.625
Attack range	125
Movement speed	335

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Acquisition radius: 400
Selection height: 188.8889
Selection radius: 120
Pathing radius: 35
Attack delay offset: -0.0708

ARAM: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05

Abilities

Passive

Sunlight

Innate: Leona's abilities mark enemies hit for 2.5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits. Allied champions' damaging attacks and abilities against a marked target will consume the mark to deal 32 – 151 (based on level) bonus magic damage.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Blocked

Notes (2)

Sunlight's damage respects enchantment redirection.
Zyra has a hidden passive that grants her 10% increased size for 33 seconds after having Sunlight applied to her.

Shield of Daybreak

Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 ManaCooldown: 5Cast time: none

Active: Leona illuminates her shield, empowering her next basic attack within 6 seconds to have an uncancellable windup, gain 50 bonus range, deal bonus magic damage and stun the target for 1 second.

Bonus Magic Damage: 10 / 35 / 60 / 85 / 110 (+ 30% AP)

Shield of Daybreak resets Leona's basic attack timer.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Ability damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedParries: Missing

Notes (10)

The enhanced attack will apply other on-hit effects and can critically strike as normal.
Critical strikes do not interact with Shield of Daybreak's bonus damage.
PENDING FOR TEST:: Shield of Daybreak's interactions with dodging, blocking.
Shield of Daybreak's attack can miss, nullifying its effects entirely.
Shield of Daybreak's attack does not put Leona's basic attack on cooldown.
This effectively performs a second attack reset.
This is unlike nearly every other empowered attack spell (including those which, similar to Shield of Daybreak, formerly used a more unconventional spell-cast as an attack rather than an attack override).
Leona will wait out Shield of Daybreak's wind-down before automatically attacking, anyway. The player must issue the next attack themselves to gain the full benefit of the second reset.
Shield of Daybreak shares this feature with Volibear's Thundering Smash and Shyvana's Emberstrike.
The empowered attack can trigger against turrets exclusively.

Eclipse

Cost: 60 ManaCooldown: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10Cast time: noneEffect radius: 450

Active: Leona raises her guard for 3 seconds, gaining flat pre-mitigation damage reduction of up to 50% of the damage instance and bonus armor and bonus magic resistance.

Flat Damage Reduction: 8 / 12 / 16 / 20 / 24
Bonus Armor: 20 / 27.5 / 35 / 42.5 / 50 (+ 20% bonus armor)
Bonus Magic Resistance: 20 / 27.5 / 35 / 42.5 / 50 (+ 20% bonus magic resistance)

Her shield detonates after the duration, dealing magic damage to nearby enemies. If this hits an enemy, Leona's guard is extended for an additional 3 seconds.

Magic Damage: 55 / 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 (+ 40% AP)

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See Notes

Notes (3)

Neither the cast nor detonation of Eclipse interrupts any of Leona's previous orders or ongoing attack windups.
The resistance scaling will factor from all other sources, excluding Eclipse's flat bonus. This will recalculate over the duration.
Spell shield will block the damage but Eclipse's extended duration will not be prevented.

Zenith Blade

Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 ManaCooldown: 12 / 10.5 / 9 / 7.5 / 6Cast time: 0.25Target range: 900Width: 140Speed: 2000

Active: Leona projects her sword in the target direction that deals magic damage to enemies hit.

Magic Damage: 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 (+ 40% AP)

After reaching its maximum range, if the sword hit an enemy champion during its flight, Leona dashes to 225 units beyond the location of the last champion struck and roots them for 0.5 seconds.

Leona is unable to move or attack while Zenith Blade is in flight. She can cast any of her abilities during the dash.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: BlockedProjectile: BlockedGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Interrupted

Notes (7)

Leona will fail to dash to and root the last champion struck if they are not within 3000 units of her by the time the sword missile fizzles from reaching maximum range.
Leona will not track the target if they change locations during her dash.
She will only dash to their current location at the time the sword fizzled.
The root application on the last champion struck is applied at an inconsistent timing.(unexpected)
Leona will be ordered to basic attack the target she dashed to, after her dash completes.
Spell shield will block the damage, and prevent Leona from dashing as the last champion struck by her sword.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.

Solar Flare

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 90 / 75 / 60Cast time: 0.25Target range: 1200Effect radius: 325 • 175 • 800Inner radius: 100

Active: Leona calls down a solar flare that strikes upon the target location after 0.625 seconds, granting sight of the area before impact and for another 3 seconds afterwards. Enemies hit are dealt magic damage and slowed by 80% for 1.75 seconds, and are also stunned for the same duration if they are struck by the epicenter.

Magic Damage: 150 / 225 / 300 (+ 80% AP)

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Walk in range of the target location to castAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: Blocked

Notes (3)

Solar Flare's visual effects are only visible to enemies if they have sight of the area it was cast upon.
The cast indicator shows 300 radius for the area of effect and 120 radius for the epicenter, however the actual hitbox radii are larger than those values.
The revealed radius is not obstructed by terrain or brush.

Map-specific differences (1)

AP ratio changed to 100% AP.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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