Leona·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Leona Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Font of Life, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Haste and Triumph in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Heartsteel as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Sunfire Aegis. For your last 3 items, you should build Winter's Approach, Thornmail and finish with Iceborn Gauntlet. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - E - Q. Right now, this build has 39.6% winrate over 91 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Leona Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Aftershock as your keystone, Font of Life, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Triumph in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Ability Haste in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Heartsteel, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Sunfire Aegis as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Thornmail, Kaenic Rookern and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is W - E - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 42.2% win rate over 83 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Transcendence in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Heartsteel as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Winter's Approach as a third item. You want to finish the build with Unending Despair, Hollow Radiance and Liandry's Torment. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 52.1% win rate across 73 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Leona Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Font of Life, Second Wind and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Triumph with Legend: Haste as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Winter's Approach as third item. The last 3 options are Thornmail, Unending Despair and Iceborn Gauntlet. The ability order for this build is W - E - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 42.1% win rate over 57 matches played.

Situational Leona Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Leona build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.