Leona
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Good (7/10)
High Investment Required
Rare Relics OK
Leona is a highly effective control champion who excels at locking down the enemy board with stuns and building massive unit stats. While her power level is undeniable, especially at higher constellation levels, her slow pacing and reliance on specific support units like Rahvun can make her gameplay feel repetitive. She requires a moderate to high investment to overcome her sluggish early game.
Daybreak Consistency
Provides +1 starting mana when Leona is Titanic, accelerating her slow early game.
Grants +3 Health, pushing Leona's base 5 Health to 8, which activates the Titanic requirement for Starforged Gauntlets.
Draws a 4-cost card and reduces its cost to 0. This guarantees drawing Rahvun, Daylight's Spear, ensuring permanent Daybreak activation.
Strategy
This build focuses on solving Leona's two biggest weaknesses: early game tempo and reliance on Rahvun. Luminous Orb ensures Leona is Titanic, activating Starforged Gauntlets for a crucial extra mana gem. Found Fortune guarantees that Rahvun is drawn and played for free, provided no other 4-cost cards are drafted during the adventure. This setup allows Leona to immediately establish board control and permanently activate Daybreak effects.
Formidable Scaling
Grants Daybreak allies +0|+1 and Tough, providing significant health scaling when combined with her 6-star power.
Converts the massive health buffs generated by Daybreak triggers into offensive power.- Ensures Rahvun is drawn to maintain continuous Daybreak triggers.
Strategy
Designed specifically for a 6-star Leona, this build capitalizes on the doubled Daybreak effects. Shield of Daybreak continuously stacks health on allied units, which Strength of Stone then weaponizes by granting Formidable. This transforms Leona's board into an unbreakable wall of high-stat units that can easily close out games.
Permastun Control
Doubles Leona's champion spell once 6 mana is reached, allowing for multiple stuns per action.
Generates a fleeting copy of Leona each round, providing a constant supply of her champion spell.
Refills spell mana each round, ensuring enough resources to cast the generated champion spells.
Strategy
This rare-relic build leans heavily into Leona's control capabilities. The goal is to survive the early game until reaching 6 mana. Once active, Chemtech Duplicator doubles the Morning Light spells generated by The Grand General's Counterplan. This creates an inescapable stun-lock on the enemy board while simultaneously buffing allied units.
Other Relic Options
Generates a 0-cost spell each round, which serves as a reliable, burst-speed trigger for Leona's 4-star Phalanx power.
Provides Spellshield, protecting Leona from hard removal in aggressive or control-heavy adventures.
Increases the consistency of drawing Leona and provides cheap champion spells for continuous board control.
Grants a Rally upon leveling up, allowing Leona to immediately capitalize on a stunned enemy board.
Perfect Hex Core is uniquely valuable for Leona once she unlocks her 4-star power, as it provides a consistent way to generate defensive barriers at burst speed.
Constellation
Leona's constellation path is somewhat restrictive, with key upgrades locked behind mandatory nodes. However, the upgrades successfully transform her from a slow control champion into an overwhelming stat-scaling powerhouse capable of handling Nightmare difficulties.
Solar Power
Allies have "Daybreak: Grant me +1|+1."
Piety's Reward
+1 Starting Mana. When you level up an ally champion, create a Morning Light in hand. It costs 0.Review
Synergizes exceptionally well with relics that trigger on level-up, as it generates a 0-cost Morning Light to immediately impact the board.
Solar Power II
Allies have "Daybreak or when you activate another Daybreak: Grant me +1|+1."Review
Grants Daybreak to drafted cards, significantly improving her flexibility in adventures and making her less reliant on finding native Daybreak units.
Phalanx
When you target an ally, give it Barrier this round.Review
Players disagree about Phalanx. Some consider it a low-impact defensive tool since Leona's stuns already prevent most combat damage. While others find it highly effective when paired with relics like Perfect Hex Core to generate burst-speed barriers and bait the AI into unfavorable trades.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Provides a critical mana gem that accelerates her slow early game, allowing her to deploy key units like Rahvun a turn earlier to establish control.
Aspect of the Sun
Whenever an ally's Daybreak is activated, activate it again.Review
Doubles the stat buffs and effects of Daybreak triggers. This creates an overwhelming board presence and facilitates permanent stun-locks. Note that it doubles the effect of the Daybreak, but only counts as a single activation toward her level-up condition.
Gameplay Tips
- Optimize Found Fortune
If utilizing the Found Fortune relic, avoid drafting any 4-cost cards during the adventure. This guarantees that the relic will always draw Rahvun, Daylight's Spear, who is essential for maintaining permanent Daybreak effects.
- Manage Hand Size
Leona's deck generates significant value and card creation, making it very easy to overfill your hand. Avoid drafting powers or items that draw additional cards at the start of the game to prevent burning important combo pieces.
- Increase Animation Speed
Leona's frequent Daybreak activations and board-wide stun triggers can significantly extend game time. Increasing the game's animation speed to 4x in the settings is highly recommended to make her gameplay much more fluid.
- Understand C6 Mechanics
Her 6-star power doubles the effect of Daybreak (such as the stat buffs and stuns) but only counts as a single activation toward her level-up requirement. Furthermore, casting a spell with a Daybreak effect does not trigger the C6 duplication; the activation must come directly from an ally unit.