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, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Abyssal Mask. For the skill order, you want to stick with W - E - Q. Right now, this build has 43.4% winrate over 76 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Leona Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Gathering Storm 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 Sunfire Aegis, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Winter's Approach as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Thornmail, Spirit Visage and Titanic Hydra. The skill order for this build is W - E - Q. In the current patch, this build has a 52.2% win rate over 69 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Aftershock as your keystone, Font of Life, Second Wind and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Triumph in the secondary tree, as well as Ability Haste, 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 Sunfire Aegis as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Winter's Approach and Kaenic Rookern. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it W - E - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 54.0% win rate across 50 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.