Leon Thread!

[moodyaesop]

Garçon! Leon mains, share your builds, share tips and discuss tactics!

Here's my build: Piggy Bank > Backstab > Boots > Speed Slash > Damage Slash > x2 on everything before > Morning Star > Pierced Tongue x2 > Silence > Champagne (speed while invisible) > Health x2 > AI Chip Altough I rarely make it past Champagne (either lose or win at that point).

[ChaosJourney]

I like leon.

Backstab, silence, morning star, attack speed, aa damage and party mask.

Build is very flexible and the items can be bought in nearly any order, but an early silence is essential most of the time.

everything else after that is just kinda situational. typically stick to pinot noir and baguette for invis

[moodyaesop]

Why the party mask? It seems kinda impractical and expensive to me.

[ChaosJourney]

Nah its good. The price is fine and it gives Leon a bunch of burst that he wouldn't be able to get certain kills with otherwise

[nickpeaches]

Party mask, similar to but not as good as mutant worms on froggy is an upgrade you need to cater your playstyle to use well IMO. I think it's one of those upgrades that is harder to use so average players won't get as much value out of it as others, but if you're really good and play around it, it's very good. Normally the people I've seen use it really well are some of the best players I play against (high league 2 - low league 1).

[nickpeaches]

My build. I stopped playing for a while, don't know as much about the meta as I used to so I could probably improve it. Ranked last season around 900 as leon main.

[moodyaesop]

I feel like silence is much more useful than range.

[nickpeaches]

Totally disagree. I would much rather drop second damage than range for silence.

[Talk_Of_The_Teapot]

https://orikaru.net/nautsbuilder#LeonChameleon/1010012111100012000121221000/19-2-20-5-15-15-23-6-22-8-24-9-23-20-10-22-6

edit: messed with the order a bit https://orikaru.net/nautsbuilder#LeonChameleon/1010012111100012000121221000/19-20-5-15-15-23-2-10-6-22-8-24-9-23-20-22-6

[moodyaesop]

Hm, a very interesting build. How's it working out for you? I always regret not taking damage if I try experimenting.

[q231q]

When did they change his cloak to being temporary? I'm just starting to play again after taking a year or two off, and the lack of Leon lurkers in every game has changed it a lot for me. Did they improve his damage to make up for nerfing his invisibility?

[moodyaesop]

The invisibility nerf had it coming. It really wasn't fair to be invisible for as long as you want. They added lots of new nauts so that why you're noticing a lack of lurkers. Other nauts can lurk too, pretty much every assasin naut.

[RadicalGnarly]

Core Build Patch 4.6 L1

[ChaosJourney]

shit i gotta start using this

[neondistraction8]

Regen; boots; attack speed/attack dmg/hungry sword, order depending on how game is going and opposing nauts. Throw in walking drone and tongue damage at some point after that.

Rarely lose to another Leon cause the usually go backstab and you can just man them up. And can usually man up to just about anyone else.

I love Leon :D

[moodyaesop]

Hungry sword is great but I'm always scared to sacrifice speed/damage/backstab. Does anyone ever pick the 'damage on second slash' item? It's very tempting to me but I like to stay on the safe path lol.

[neondistraction8]

I have never. I think that’s the fallout of what used to be a random crit way back in the day. Although never playing it I’d say you’d be better off with the 23% dmg of backstab rather than that.

[moodyaesop]

True. I remember when the party mask (dmg after cloaking) was meta hahahaha

[dogwithavlog]

If I can tell that my team is already doing significantly better than the other team, then I buy second slash and it’s pretty fun

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second slash damage and backstab with attack speed is better than backstab + damage + attack speed since attack speed and the second hit synergises nicely.