Hey so I tried this build like 3 times and yeah, it doesnt work at all for a few reasons. 1, money... all of this **** is hella spensive and you dont even get enough gold to have your second item by 20 mins, theres absolutely no way in hell you're getting full build in under 70 mins unless you personally get like 12 kills, which isnt happening.

Edit: oh I forgot to add, no boots is literally ******ed, especially as Leona. I literally show up super late and cant chase a target to save my life, or my teams as it turns out. Supports almost always go boots first, especially for engagers like Leona.

Secondly, the video you posted was fro swiftplay, which is literally the only place this build functions, and its an amazing build, but myabe dont lead players on and make us think we can use this **** in normals or ranked, cos you cant.

As a Leona main, I get roughly 2-5 kills a game and anywhere from 10-20 assists, and I still cant get more than over half way with this ****, and believe me, you arent immortal or dealing damage at that point, way better to just have a standard spec.

The guide is ok, but it doesn't mitigate Leona's weaknesses that are well known and abused on high elo.
the build itself plays on her strenghs and try to give her some laning power which she has none, there is also a recomendation of AP items for leona, although full AP leona can work it isn't the best neither the optimal items for my beloved CC chain lady. i recommend sundered sky and terminus to give her more trade power since she has long cooldowns and auto attacks a lot. BoRK is also good since she can AA cancel with her Q and actually trade in lane.

as for bad items Leona needs mana, a lot of mana since she is 2 combos away from having no skills, fimbulwinter is good, but it delays her spikes a lot, a way to mitigate that is to buy RoA. sunfire since the nerf is the worst item for laning ans now that almost meta champions have some ap damage hollow radiance helps her a lot with the wave clear she lacks a lot.
now for runes, revitalize is only good after our 3rd item and fountain of life has no value as a top since you're gonna get ignored most of the time since you're LEONA TOP. i recomend overgrowth + demolish always since leona really likes health stacking due to her W, and you can chunk the enemy towers once you get into a fighting.
also the goal of the build is Not Dying, but Leona's kit really likes you being a sacrificial pawn to let yout team trade 2 enemies for your life.
Now my last grudge, Warmog's should be interchanchable with heartsteel.
funny items that i also recommend: Eclipse, Steraks, Hullbreaker (its funny with Demolish, Seraphs, titanic Hydra, Stride breaker, Trinity force.

Is this build still valid for today?

question in advance of pre-season 23:
since sunfire and chemtank become non-mythic items, and instead iceborn gauntlet takes over the mythic passive stats sunfire had, will it become the part of the core now, or will something else be made? Also the fact it will give only armor and a sheen effect, not immolate and dual resistances, how will it affect the next items? Introduction of demonic to the build? building chemtank later to offset resistances (since it becomes MR only) or other MR item?

nice guide :D

questa leona è davvero immortale, all'inizio non ci credevo ma poi l'ho provata ed ho resistito ad un sacco di danni

Muito bom

dude, in silver 4 i don't have chance, but thank you for this guide (For me don't working)

Thanks man

tankudo

good guide!