Redfork2000's Leon Build

GAME PLANThe main game plan for using this build is to build towards getting your Super to then use it to get easy kills by ambushing vulnerable targets. So your game plan mostly revolves around your Super, as well as eventually your Hypercharge, which is one of the strongest in the game.You want to start playing more cautiously, keeping a distance from dangerous brawlers and slowly chipping away at them from a distance, both to stop them from progressing down the map, and to gain charge for your Super without putting yourself at risk.Use bushes and walls strategically. Use walls to take cover from snipers and force them out of position to shoot at you. Bushes can be used to hide in and use your gadget to create a temporary distraction that will waste opponent's ammo and can allow you to reposition yourself. Remember to only use your gadget when you are at full or almost full health, as if you use it when you're on low health, not only will your clone be taken out immediately, but it will become more obvious to the opponents that it is a clone as it is rushing towards them at low health, something that'd be counterintuitive for a player to do.When you've finally charged your Super, look at the enemy team and determine who your target will be. The best brawlers to target with your Super will be low health brawlers that you can easily defeat at point blank range. Think of marksman brawlers like Brock, Bea, Byron or Piper, and thrower brawlers like Tick, Barley or Sprout. However also be mindful of their positioning. If their allies are nearby, they will likely take you out once you reveal yourself when you attack. Instead it's best to attack brawlers that are isolated from their allies.Try to go into a bush before you use your Super. If you use your Super where the enemy can see you, they will know you are invisible and will try to locate you. Instead if you use your Super inside a bush, the other team might not even realize you've gone invisible until it's too late.Here's where the Smoke Trails star power comes in handy, as it lets you close the distance very quickly, and Lingering Smoke will make your Super last longer. This ensures that you will be able to approach your target as quickly as possible and secure the kill. This combination also works greatly as a retreat option if you need to reposition yourself. Hide into a bush, then use your Super, and run to a different bush to make it harder for enemies to locate you. This works especially well in Gem Grab if you happen to be carrying a lot of gems.ALTERNATIVESLollipop Drop is an alternative option to Clone Projector that can be especially useful in modes where you want to keep control of a certain area of the map. By placing the gadget to cover the area you want to control, it will make it harder for enemies to defeat you and your teammates. This works best when paired with long-ranged brawlers, who can freely attack while under the invisible effect of your gadget, thus making it hard for enemies to approach freely. If used between two groups of bushes it can allow you to "connect" the bushes, thus making it easy to move between one group of bushes and another without being detected.The Invisiheal star power gives you better survivability, though I prefer Smoke Trails as its speed boost allows you to more quickly close the distance to secure kills more easily.The Lingering Smoke gear is arguably the best gear Leon can use, as prolonging his invisibility allows him that much more of an opportunity to use his Super to secure kills or to reposition himself on the map.The Damage gear is very helpful for winning close fights that you might otherwise lose. I believe with Leon, offense is usually the best defense.Alternative gears I could recommend are the Shield gear, which can help increase the chances of survival when using your Super to approach an enemy to secure a kill or the Speed gear on particularly bushy maps.MODESWhile I consider Leon to be a versatile brawler that can perform well on most modes, I have the most success playing Leon on modes that encourage the use of Marksman and Artillery brawlers, as these are very long-range brawlers with very low health that have a very hard time defending themselves when ambushed by Leon using his Super. As long as you make sure to play patiently at first, fighting at a distance until Leon can get his Super, you will then be able to use his Super to easily ambush and defeat these brawlers.My preferred modes to use Leon are Knock Out, Bounty, Duels and Wipeout, though he can also perform well on Gem Grab to ambush the gem carrier on the opposing team, and is a decent pick in Brawl Ball due to his fast movement speed and his ability to easily defeat enemies at point blank if they try to approach the goal with the ball. But in Brawl Ball you generally want to play more aggressively than in most other modes, focusing on clearing out the defenses quickly to allow yourself and your teammates to score quickly. You can afford to play more aggressively and get closer to enemies than you could in other modes, as you rely less on your Super to provide value to the team. Against close-range brawlers like Tanks, or assassins like Buzz or Edgar, stay at a medium range from them, close enough to deal significant damage to them with your attacks while also staying far enough that they can't reach you with their own attacks.