[Vol. 22] Agent Intro | Mara

[obtuse vessel]

Mara's Phantom Grip drags the weak into eternal silence—a place of no light, no mercy, no escape.

[Vol. 22] Agent Intro | Mara

[grand void]

mamara

[worthy swift]

Meow

[brave silo]

Only use A3 if either in Escort or using ult, otherwise, use A2

[tranquil oyster]

nerf

I don't care how many agents you add, i'll always main BaiMo.

[brave silo]

[mystic sandal]

hell nah

[slender fractal]

i need maddie guide

[tiny kestrel]

А есть видео как перс вообще играется ?

[strange falcon]

Why Mara gets guide earlier than Leona? Or does Leona gonna get even a guide?

[lucid gale]

The skills looks mild, except the passive skill.

[strange falcon]

She’s too op needs nerf.

[coral coral]

I need Mara to kill me via snu snu

[grand void]

they should make Leona guide asap

[strange falcon]

Ikr, Idk if the staff hates Leona or forgotten her.

[grand void]

My girl deserve better than this

[strange falcon]

I hope the staff still considers to create Leona guide thread or Else Leona RIP.

[grand void]

[upper perch]

Anyways since Mara isn't even out yet, I'm taking this opportunity to make this the unofficial Leona guide

[grand void]

[strange falcon]

I wonder why the staff don’t create Leona thread. Even the members themselves create their own out of desperation.
#Leona lives matter.

[grand void]

Leona deserve better

glory to pus engineering

[strange falcon]

Leona protest.

[grand void]

[strange falcon]

#LeonaLivesMatter.

Pettion.

[grand void]

[upper perch]

well where do i begin...

inhales

[upper perch]

Obwankenobi's* Leona Guide

• Leona's Primary: Calibrator, Light Machine Gun (LMG)
• Active Signature Ability - Place square blocks on the map. Requires energy. Placement resets on Demolition. 8 uses available per round. Max. 16 blocks in all other modes.
• Passive Skill - Rechargeable Energy Bar for placing blocks. Either increases speed (50%+) or slowly restores armor (~50%)
  Leona's Ultimate - Replenishes Energy Bar. While active, new & existing blocks placed on the map are transparent. Your team can walk and shoot through blocks without breaking them until it expires.

*Note 31/03/25: With the latest update I'm still experimenting, and I'm going to make a mistake or four. But if this was helpful, or need advice on Leona's mechanics, drop them here - I'll see if I can recreate screenshots or video examples already exist

[strange falcon]

Based, should be pinned.

[upper perch]

Loadout/Perks:
Recalibrate
🟦 Firing: Base Rate of Fire
🟦 Critical Hit: Stringified Damage
🟦 Capacity: Magazine Capacity (+10)
🟦 Accuracy: Spread Control (can’t reduce recoil)
I've selected these or some variation of it with my eyes closed. Leona's spread can feel slow to start early game, because although you're more mobile and can move with your team ( ) I can't expect her gun to keep up until you land most of your shots.

[strange falcon]

Keep going.

[upper perch]

SSBB
🟦 Firing: Base Damage
🟦 Critical Hit: Headshot Damage
🟦 Capacity: Reload Speed
🟦 Accuracy: ADS Speed
If you're extremely comforting playing up close, you can have a ton of fun grouping together in stacks to find picks, rotate quickly or when you find yourself diving single targets or snowballing attackers. Mix and match with green perks (Armor/Survivability) to add a bit of stylistic buff to close the distance or sustain team fights.

Active Ability Perks

🟡 Block HP +150 (was +100)
For locking down positions slightly longer. Stacks with A2 to double their HP when combined. Durable blocks increases the ammo usage, which also increases the chance you can hear what angle they're attacking.

🟡 Cooldown -15s (was -25% Energy Cost)
"HOW DO THESE CREEPERS KEEP FINDING THEIR WAY INSIDE MY HOUSE!"
As of Season 3, this will now be replaced with a cooldown, to be more in line with other agents with deployables. On paper this is a drastic change, though it seems like you can still set up multiple blocks without waiting on cooldown. I'll post more about the blocks once I've played enough games under the Signature Ability section.

Overall, I don't see a reason to stick with one perk over the other throughout any Strinova match. 🟡 -20% Energy Cost is only effective if you must build more blocks during the match, goes great with 🟦 The SSBB build to buy time in tight spaces or to reach the block limit quickly.

Passive Ability Perks

🟡 Movement SPD and Armor Regen
Leona's only Passive Perk on launch, this passive basically lets her move across the two points slightly faster when the energy bar is over halfway. At times you might find yourself looking to improve her evasiveness or her armor regen. So long as you are below the halfway for armor recovery to trigger, this and light armor are the best ways to encourage tagging and peeking corners at midrange.

🟡 Energy Regen +50%
This will be your most affordable tool to allow you to continue constructing more blocks. Aside from this ability being required for A2, it largely depends on your playstyle if playing minecraft is more important than equipping basic weapon upgrades.

[strange falcon]

I promoted your guide.

[upper perch]

Wait where

[strange falcon]

Just in gen chat.

And game chat.

[upper perch]

I'll let you know if i'm proper done, most of this I have in bullet points and my silver lobbies

[strange falcon]

You did nothing wrong here you have no choice there is no Leona thread.

You good.

Hope the staff won’t get mad.

[upper perch]

If you think they might, you underestimate their power

Though if someone wants to recompile this in case it does get deleted and reuse any of it, i don't mind so long as you DM me

[strange falcon]

I believe you archived it.

You can always re post it every time a new Agent releases.

[upper perch]

turn it into a copypasta

[strange falcon]

At this rate the staff will never create leona thread.

Everyone hates her.

[upper perch]

only takes a quick search online and it's just really bad

You won't have a character as popular as michele from the same class anyway @strange falcon ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[strange falcon]

Ye.

Michele is the most popular agent in PUS.

Cannot be replaced.

Also sentinel as a whole.

[grand void]

thanks for the guide

[upper perch]

Armor & Survivability
27/03/25 Season 3 introduces overhauls to stringification, health (+50HP) and armor values, that now gives ALL agents receive +2 Shield/s passive armor regeneration , effectively. I've consulted VODs from non-Leona mains who accessed the global test server and provided the numbers here from the new base stats.

💚 Heavy Armor (+50) >> Light Armor (+30)
A lot of Leona's battles are best done up close, so it should be no surprise that she fares better with more endurance.
For the same price for higher base armor, you're well off equipping Heavy like the majority of agents.

💚 Stringified DMG Reduction (-33%) >> Stringified Movement SPD (+25%)
Same reasons as Heavy Armor, however Leona's base speed is significantly slower than other duelists when trying to escape or regroup.
If the enemy team composition has you grouping up more often or the map requires it, give movement speed a shot and keep that energy bar full (more on this when i cover her Active Ability in-depth).

[upper perch]

Cheers, I really need map specific help, particularly Cosmite and Port Euler.

We also have way more things to work with next patch than I thought: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6TQylCqyhhVH9MrWOrvtSmlrDdZJNRxZ?si=huGbiP_kq7qMv2SX

[strange falcon]

We need to continue the Leona guides till staff creates Leona thread.

[upper perch]

like i said, any help is appreciated :3

we must go deeper

[strange falcon]

Indeed.

[grand void]

[upper perch]

Some silly little comments I found on YT of Leona before launch using gameplay from CN servers

[grand void]

Leona is not that broken

[coral coral]

bro Leona ain't that good XDDDD, she needs better block placements

[upper perch]

Placeholder until season update Wednesday

[tranquil oyster]

i think i used leona a total of 3 times since she came out, hopefully the new buffs make her more fun to use.

[upper perch]

Baimo: Who is the sassy woman that built this contraption?!

[grand void]

Best architecture of pus engineering

[reef salmon]

because tonight will the night i will be fall for you

https://tenor.com/view/siutbot-emo-gif-21558808

[strange falcon]

More Leona Guide pls..

[grand void]

[upper perch]

patience, we'll get there after more time cooking

[grand void]

woah

why is she doing that pose

[upper perch]

I was just trying to see how many were under me from the high ground - the blue flames are from eikas ult and we already ran out the clock when i got blade.

5/5 transformation sequence

why is she doing that pose

I stumbled upon a Leona 3d model preset posing like this on the wiki. Girl got caught in 4k winning

[grand void]

[strange falcon]

Noice.

[upper perch]

It's very important that the Mara mains don't see this post full of Leona strats

doesn't matter if you're spotted if the enemy sniper can't shoot through your blocks in time

[strange falcon]

In your defense it’s staff fault for not posting a Leona thread.

Also Mara doesn’t freaking need a guide bcs everyone who uses her dominate every damn match.

In fact Leona’s skills needs more guide and insight bcs the Minecraft abilities shows tons of potential for imaginative ideas.

[strange falcon]

Kokona sweet spots still works.

[upper perch]

we just get to do them earlier

[grand void]

https://tenor.com/view/repo-repo-game-i-love-malcom-todd-chest-pain-i-love-gif-2148783786257423901

[upper perch]

half asleep posting offensive setups with Leona's ult, can someone do their best to explain this defensive hold?

[strange falcon]

Nice gold.

[upper perch]

These walls of gold cheddar hath no fear over their opponents

[upper perch]

when there is a will, there is always a way to take high ground

[grand void]

Mighty leona

[upper perch]

Sometimes they even go rogue and start attaching themselves to the ceiling!

Also, with new Awakening 1 now recovers armor slightly near a block, it synergises well defensively, letting Leona hold space with her ultimate, which means...

YOU NO LONGER NEED AWAKENING TO LATCH ONTO WALLS

[strange falcon]

@upper perch

Gimme spots similar to these.

[grand void]

They need to buff her cake

[upper perch]

https://tenor.com/view/leona-strinova-leona-strinova-gif-16803720958073518062

[mystic sandal]

Gyattt

[grand void]

God im so hungry

May you give me some of yours

https://tenor.com/view/freaky-sonic-gif-16480151311255377524

[strange falcon]

@upper perch Can you give me good spots? OwO

[upper perch]

https://tenor.com/view/yeep-yeeps-let-him-build-upspotparrot-gif-16019574970444220636

[upper perch]

The first MVP-Level position I've held on TDM

[strange falcon]

Cool, any more positions and spots for different maps?

@upper perch Also check this out.

[upper perch]

There's too many on cosmite which are extremely situational but these are my favorites, from highly unlikely to most likely to pull off as defensive holds

@strange falcon

[strange falcon]

These are amazing, yours originally?

I wanna look for potential map so bad.

[upper perch]

Only original, some day i can post ones that i've seen get used by other Leonas ive matched with

[strange falcon]

I see, I will credit your work!

[strange falcon]

When Chiyo releases will we move Leona discussion there?

[brave silo]

Wym, this is the leona channel

[grand void]

https://tenor.com/view/leona-strinova-leona-strinova-gif-16803720958073518062

[upper perch]

You mean i gotta whip out the leona guide on a character people like and actively looking for help?

well that depends on if you found anyone still making and sharing screenshots of spots you've found on the new map

Which you can't use active abilities

[upper perch]

but I can talk about her passive in more detail

[strange falcon]

Welp if that thread is inactive we can have Leona guide there.

Just like how Mara is so broken she doesn’t need guides.

[quasi summit]

@strange falcon @upper perch can u plz tell me the right build for leona?
Fire? Armor? Etc etc?

[upper perch]

send me your best block placements

I need to see some serious Leona players before I give out free advice

[quasi summit]

@upper perch i dont have any... I just need to know the build first plz 🥹 🥹

[upper perch]

I'm just in an outbreak game, I'll get back to you later

[upper perch]

So I realised I redone some of this so here's an updated version of this build guide.

🟦 💚 Awakening 1: Energy Dispersion

Allies near blocks slowly regenerate armor.
400 Points make her A1 readily available. Like Celestia's Cosmic Recovery, but you and your team must be nearby one of your blocks for the bonus armor regen.
Unlike Celestia Passive, blocks don't move with you, and since it stacks with universal armor regen, there is no animation effect you nor the opponent can see whenever this is active.

🟦 🟡 🟡 💚 Awakening 2: Fortified Connection

Connected blocks are treated as a single unit with shared HP.
The best utility is often the simplest, put two or more to multiply the amount of damage needed to clear out the entire barricade in one go.
Once setup, this is going to give your opponents a harder time to engage or even force them to switch routes to plant to bomb.
Combine this with Leona's ultimate to stack enough cover that's so strong they'll need to fight you with a high value ultimate or secondary weapons.
If in doubt, always select this awakening and stick with it. Once you have a read at what A3 does, you'll see why you're better off rushing 900 points for this A2 instead.

🟦 🟦 🟦 🟡 💚 Awakening 3: Industrial Impact

Leona can switch block deployment mode, using skill points and energy to summon falling blocks at a target area, briefly knocking enemies airborne.
For 950 credits, you will be granted the most underperforming and greatly misunderstood ability. A large, square zone is marked in front of you. Once the area is selected, it lifts the marked opponents into the air, forcing gliding into 2D mode until descent or they break stringification.
A co-ordinated defense will be able to shoot them down, but a great Leona using this understands this provides some much needed crowd control when dropped onto unsuspecting opponents. This can briefly disrupt bomb plants, players in close range, attackers trying to flamethrower you, cancel chiyo's ult. There's great potential here!
Unfortunately, whether it's a design or skill issue, biggest challenge executing this Awakening correctly is to treat it like an extra ability with more steps:

• You have to switch deployment modes
• You need to time it right, especially moving targets
• Have line of sight with the ground to be able to pick up your target(s)
  Even after all that, they are in midair VERY BRIEFLY. You don't get to control how high or long they remain forced into superstring mode, and while they're unable to fire when in forced gliding mode, they have a flat hitbox since they're stringified.
  I strongly advise newer players from using A3 until you are confident with her toolkit and have a consistent strategy around forced 2D opponents.

tl;dr her yellow and blue abilities should be a light armor girlie with heavy machine gun. Awakening 3 is going away, just build for Awakening 2 because it's poorly designed

[quasi summit]

Thats cool but still i didnt know what is the build?
Like max cap or reload? Headshot or string? Spd or reduction... Etc? @upper perch

Something like that
So i know what to pick

[upper perch]

Its complicated

Rather than thinking one playstyle and build as the only way to play leona well, you need to consider both your opponent's team and the map you drop into

[strange falcon]

In my case The yellow depends, but I always choose block damage but cd works too, I go for armor, Light armor and Speed stringify.
Blue, Either RoF or Base D good, Headshot damage, Reload speed good for her bcs lmg already has many boolets so adding 10 more won’t do much so reload speed helps a lot, I think handling speed would be objectively better since she is an lmg user but I prefer using spread.
A2 btw for now but soon go with A3 bcs major rework.

RoF works with her bcs she is one of the only 2 lmg users in the game.

[quasi summit]

Thanksssss 🤍 🤍

[strange falcon]

@upper perch Hewwo do you have any block spots for season 5? I struggle to be creative with Leona.

[upper perch]

we stopped making sentry positions on the high ground to making death traps using fragile blocks with her new A3

[upper perch]

creativity is relative, there's also a potential exploit that exists on bilibili with her A3 where the explosions are potentially capable of blowing people underneath certain areas

so until it's clear to me that we're allowed to, i will share it i due time

but i don't have the original clip of the exploit on Windy Town so

[strange falcon]

Oh okay I see, thank you if you have ideas in the future feel free to share also If you have tips on how to be creative with Leona feel free to share too if you have time. ^^

[strange falcon]

@upper perch I am so bacc.

[upper perch]

YEAHH THAT'S MY CHIVALROUS KNIGHT

[strange falcon]

I made her look good.

[upper perch]

https://youtube.com/shorts/AasdwZfil3o?si=xsae0Rf-OwiYW7VR @strange falcon @spark turret ive got you two confused in the past but this is clearly very important "mara" strategy 😉

[spark turret]

bbro me and WhyIloveLag is 2 different person 😭

[upper perch]

As a leona main, maras deserve to be blocked in game and you should know about it

[strange falcon]

Thank you I will try this on custom.

[strange falcon]

Hi pookie I miss you I hope we talk again soon~!

Does the person made a tutorial? @upper perch

[spark turret]

Pookie3e I miss you too

[strange falcon]

This sticker nice.

[upper perch]

S5 Midseason updates for Leona builds

Leona's active ability - Bulletproof Glass

• Use skill points and energy to generate Bulletproof Glass on placed blocks, blocking only enemy bullets. Up to 3 glass panels can appear, and has increased from 2 to 3 stacks at the start of a round.
• Can be placed on the ground, as well as attaching to the top or adjacent to other blocks and glass panels. Just remember these are frail, taken out with just half a magazine or a charged sniper round.
• Tactical abilities are playable in non-Ranked matches, but keep in mind they appear to have plans in the future, so start practicing placements, timing and combat readiness to build up team synergy.

🟡 Leona's Passive: Movement Speed Bonus increased from 6% to 10%, and Armor recovery increased from 6 every 2s to 8 every 2s.
Very reliable tweaks designed for pregame setups that make it moderately faster to reach the opposite end of the map. Also brings as a slight improvement to your floating distance when entering combat. Until you reach half energy gauge, 8t now gives Leona mofe consistent armor regen to match light armor's base regen rate. This should stack with passive and green armor regen abilities.

🟡 Active Skill : base cooldown reduced from 25s to 20s.
You want this once you start finding value in having more blocks by the 4th round. If the scissors team playstyle enjoy planting at one site over the other, you can try splitting blocks from one bomb site to the other to mixup your positioning early.

String Energy Network changes for Leona
S5 Midseason summary: since the abilities themselves are buffed, these bonuses have been reduced to avoid imbalance while also changing cooldown reduction to make the next block take 2.5 seconds longer from cooldown.

🟡 Passive Skill growth option changed from [Movement SPD and Armor Regen +100%] to [Movement SPD and Armor Regen +50%].

🟡 Active Skill growth option changed from [Cooldown -12.5s] to [Cooldown -10s]

[strange falcon]

Ping me when there is a new leona lineup tutorial.

[small sentinel]

Are we Leona mains just invading this thread because we don't have one lol

Pretty crazy spot on Orcanus

You can stand midair on this particular spot and block to hide yourself

Also nice for Yvette

[upper perch]

@hollow dock nice, adding this here

[upper perch]

https://x.com/Strinova_EN/status/1976558320363401479 THEY REMEMBER SHE EXISTS @strange falcon

Strinova (@Strinova_EN)

Happy Birthday, Leona! 🎂

A true engineer who never compromises on quality and always pushes us to build stronger and better. ✨ We hope you create perfect architectural masterpieces and provide a safe haven for the Superstrings.

Share your best wishes to Leona today! 🎁

Leave

X · Oct 10, 2025, 8:00 AM

[small sentinel]

Yesesesyesyesyezyes

[grand void]

https://tenor.com/view/flight-reacts-devious-rubbing-hands-evil-suspicious-gif-26037341

[strange falcon]

Ofc they do, the only agent they don’t care are Nobunaga, Reiichi, And Bai mo.

[clear mango]

ty

[upper perch]

imagine being on attack and you were faced with this

[small sentinel]

This is my average escort game

[strange falcon]

Chat.

@upper perch Check my latest Leona.

[strange falcon]

@obiwankenibi

I hope I am creative enough.

It also happens that the enemy relies on tp so much so it’s a lucky match.

[upper perch]

So I've been worried this strat stopped working a couple seasons back

@strange falcon you are worthy for keeping the mara Leona thread alive

[strange falcon]

Also umazing that the only thread guide alive with genuine help guide and it’s not even a leona thread lol.

[strange falcon]

Maybe bcs not a lot of people tried if a bunch of Leona users abused this strategy then devs would have patched it.

It would also make sense we use Mara thread bcs Mara is the least agent you would need an advice or help, why would need help for a cheat character?

While Leona offers limitless creative ideas.

That you would love to share.

[upper perch]

I was playing with other Leonas in Team Deathmatch, safe to say i don't recommend this play except to have fun on Leona

Unfortunately I never captured the POV in the last 40s but you can see where the missing blocks were placed on the minimap

[strange falcon]

Oh tdm.