maximising your leadership

[Writhan]

To my knowledge, the leadership you gain while leveling up, is a fixed value. It's related directly to what level you are, and nothing else.

This is why picking statistics over leadership is prefered at lower levels, and chosing leadership over statistics at later levels are prefered.

Example:

Level 2
1 Attack
40 leadership

Level 20
1 Defense
1800 leadership

You'll have abit rougher start, due to lack of leadership (Unless you're lucky with items), but later on you'll have a stronger character.