Leona
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Good (7.5/10)
High Investment Required
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Leona is widely regarded as a highly effective champion who can lock down boards permanently and scale units to massive proportions. However, she suffers from a reputation for having a 'boring' and rigid playstyle that relies heavily on specific cards (Rahvun) and lengthy animations (mitigated by 4x speed). While her 6-star power creates a 'stat monster' capable of trivializing content, the path to unlock it is criticized for its restrictive layout.
Endless Eclipse
Leona's signature relic. At 6 stars, Leona activates Daybreak effects twice, doubling the stat bonuses and Tough keyword granted by this relic.
Converts the massive health gains from Shield of Daybreak and her 6-star power into Attack, creating an unbreakable, high-damage board.
Critical for consistency. If you avoid drafting other 4-cost cards, this guarantees drawing Rahvun, Daylight's Spear, enabling permanent Daybreak activation.
Strategy
This build leverages Leona's 6-star power to double-dip on defensive stats and convert them into offensive power. Found Fortune ensures you find Rahvun to remove the 'once per round' restriction on Daybreak, allowing you to scale your board infinitely while maintaining permanent crowd control.
Solar Flare Control
Doubles all spells played after reaching 6 mana. This allows Morning Light to trigger Daybreak effects four times in total (twice from the spell cast, potentially more with C6 interactions).
Generates a fleeting Morning Light every round, ensuring you always have a spell to trigger stuns and buffs.
Protects Leona from removal, ensuring your engine stays on the board.
Strategy
A control-oriented setup that focuses on perma-stunning the enemy board. Once you reach 6 mana, the duplicated Morning Light spells will stun multiple enemies and rapidly buff your board, locking the opponent out of the game completely.
Titan of Solari
Provides an extra starting mana gem to deploy Leona and Rahvun earlier.
Activates the Starforged Gauntlets secondary effect and provides health scaling.
Grants Overwhelm to the entire board, ensuring that Leona's massive units can push lethal damage through stunned blockers.
Strategy
A standard ramp build designed to accelerate Leona's drop time. The Beast Within addresses her main weakness of lacking Overwhelm, preventing her large units from being chump-blocked.
Other Relic Options
Synergizes with Leona's 4-star power (Phalanx) by providing targeted spells every round, granting cheap Barriers to your units.
Leona's innate Toughness (or Tough from Shield of Daybreak) negates the self-damage, providing a free Impact keyword and stats.
Increases consistency in drawing Leona and allows for spamming her champion spell, Morning Light, for board-wide stuns.
Avoid 'Oath of the Guardians' as it is no longer effective on her. 'Archangel's Staff' is generally considered too slow compared to other mana options.
Constellation
Leona's constellation path is frequently criticized for being restrictive, with essential upgrades like Mana (C5) and the 6-star power (C6) locked behind linear paths. However, the power spike at C6 is undeniable.
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.
Solar Power II
Allies have "Daybreak or when you activate another Daybreak: Grant me +1|+1."
Phalanx
When you target an ally, give it Barrier this round.Review
Phalanx grants Barrier to allies when they are targeted. While often considered underwhelming compared to other 4-star powers, it provides excellent survivability when paired with relics like Perfect Hex Core.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Provides a starting Mana Gem. This is crucial for Leona's tempo, allowing her to play Rahvun or herself a turn earlier, which stabilizes runs significantly.
Aspect of the Sun
Whenever an ally's Daybreak is activated, activate it again.Review
Activates Daybreak effects an additional time. This effectively doubles her stat scaling and stun output. Note that this only duplicates the effect of the unit activating Daybreak; it does not cause the spell 'Morning Light' to cast twice.
Gameplay Tips
Drafting for Consistency
When using the Found Fortune relic, strictly avoid drafting any other 4-cost cards during your run. This guarantees that playing Leona will always draw Rahvun, Daylight's Spear, which is the linchpin of her 'infinite Daybreak' strategy.
Understanding C6 Mechanics
Leona's 6-star power states, 'When an ally activates Daybreak, activate it again.' This applies to units played from hand. It does not cause spells that trigger Daybreak effects (like Morning Light) to trigger the 6-star duplication. This distinction is vital for calculating lethal damage.
Stun Priority
Leona's stuns are slow speed. Against aggressive decks or Nightmares, you must prioritize stunning the most dangerous threats immediately. Because her deck lacks fast interaction, you often cannot respond to open attacks on Turn 2, so mulligan aggressively for early drops like Solari Sunhawk.
Animation Management
Leona's gameplay involves frequent, repetitive animations for every Daybreak trigger. It is highly recommended to play at increased animation speeds to maintain a reasonable game pace.