Leona

When a team needs someone to start the fight, Leona answers. She is the archetypal engage support — with occasional top lane appearances — built around a defense score of 8, melee range and a kit where nearly every button applies hard crowd control.

Her engage begins with Zenith Blade, a solar sword projection that damages enemies in a line; the last champion struck is briefly immobilized and Leona dashes to them. Once she arrives, Shield of Daybreak empowers her next basic attack to stun, chaining the lockdown. Together these two abilities can hold a target in place long enough for any ally to follow up, which is exactly what her Sunlight passive encourages: her damaging spells mark enemies, and allied champions consume the mark for bonus magic damage. Leona quite literally makes her teammates hit harder.

Built to Survive the Dive

Diving into an enemy team is only viable because of Eclipse, which grants damage reduction, armor and magic resist, then detonates for damage and extends itself if enemies are nearby. This lets her stand in the middle of a fight far longer than her health bar suggests.

Solar Flare completes the kit as a ranged initiation or counter-engage tool: a beam of solar energy that stuns enemies in the center and slows those on the edge, usable to start fights before she even commits her dash. Leona is ideal for decisive players who want to dictate the tempo of every skirmish and enjoy being the reason a teamfight happened at all.