dont do elo hell... im stuck in elo hell bc of people going afk, dcing or just being bad

Would be better if you could tell me what you mean by trouble. She's not really difficult honestly. Whenever you want to engage on enemies hit your W for a defense increase, and then engage with your E. Once you get to them you can choose to pop the stun with your Q, or wait it out and stun a bit later. Also her E when you fire it you can always flash and E them to effectively double its distance, and snag them when they think they're safe. Her R is simple too just wait till you can get the most amount of people in the center of it as possible, or atleast catch one in the stun and slow everyone else at the very least. Build nice and tanky, and start with a health regen bead then build to philo stone. Also get a frozen mallet if you'd like. I know she does magic dmg, but in the end her melee hits with frozen mallet would be a better slow for you than rylai's. You're a tank get in their face, and piss them off so they hit you. If you see your partner about to get killed while people chase him don't be afraid to drop your ult on all of them to help him run. The cooldown isn't that long.

My single best moment as Leona was a fight in the top lane it was 2v5, but they did not come all at once. We took out three using CC, and dodging skill shots and the other two came in did the same with them. I left that fight with like 10% hp our sion has 70% left. Sadly support gets no recognition though. I literally gave him those 5 kills, and they only said gj Sion....

I almost never play ranked anymore. not since season 1 XD. But I do play PVP all day so if you want to add me feel free my summoner name is GoreDoll. (I think it is on the first page of this thread actually haha)

gore i see you on but u must be afk

Don't do elo hell? How do you not do elo hell? XD

By not playing ranked. I've actually watched some youtube videos that are pretty helpful on increasing your elo though.

Haha, I just feel really bad playing pvp though. xD Especially if I'm the only one dying!

Then stop dying.

Playing bot matches to teach my new friend how to play!

oh that explains thing manda

Normal PvP games actually have an elo as well, though it's hidden. If you play enough games, you'll be matched with people of your own skill level. I lost a ton of normal games in a row before I got to my own skill level.

Thanks Law, that does help. Frozen Mallet sounds like a good idea, and so does saving the Q stun if I don't need it immediately. I tend to go combo-happy and mash EWQ so I stun them right when I get to them, haha. I think another part of why I never seem to do well with her is deciding when to engage. Especially during the laning phase before I have a lot of tanky items, I go in to what I think looks like a good initiation, but then once the enemy carry gets un-stunned I get harassed low enough I have to back. I don't know if I'm not picking my fights well, or if I should not engage at all and just stand around looking intimidating, or if my carry simply isn't following up (I've only played her in solo normals, but I know I should try her with a friend).

Well your partner should always be ready to follow up, and you can try to make sure they are by letting them know you're about to engage. If your partner initiates with you the enemy carry should have such low health that they can't risk attacking you back because it's run, or die. A lot of the time as Leona you can position yourself behind the enemy minions, and kind of scare the enemy into not coming near so they don't get exp or gold.

its a long process relearning these new items

These new items, and changes to current didn't change the game to much. Just now people like Twitch can use a hurricane to put poison on 3 people for expunge, or the hydra being useful on pretty much every melee. Most of the new items didn't change the game though except like that mask that burns people for 5% of current hp or 10% if movement is impaired. Teemo is just as annoying as always.

yeah they cant really nerf teemo all that much....
oh and i got some lovely skins from the vault release... nottingham ezreal and badger teemo

I got uhh Crimson Akali, Prof Ryze, Safari Cait, Hextech Sion, Leopard Nidalee, Time Machine Zil, Kingpin Twitch, Pharaoh Amumu, Firefighter Tristana.

Oh and Highland Tryndamere...and i don't know maybe other things I forget.