Sona in Howling Abyss is a sin.

SettDownShutUp·May 2, 2017·13 votes·995 views

I say this from a place of both playing as and against, and with the Legend of the Poro King fresh in everyone's mind I WILL SAY IT AGAIN.

...How do you let Sona in a mode where everyone has no choice BUT stand together, and get all her auras? How do you let her halfshot any squishy, and then heal a quarter of the health of a MUNDO. How, in a game where mobility means getting back to defend, or pushing for the win, do you let her boost the MS of her ENTIRE TEAM, on like a 5 second cooldown! SIVIR HAS THAT FOR AN ULTIMATE.

She absolutely breaks ARAM... And I LOVE IT.

20 Comments

Warlord ScrapMay 2, 20173 votes

How do they let shyv and ivern not have passives. How do they let reksai be borderline useless. Champs arent balanced around aram so some are just pointless and some are way too strong

137434May 2, 20174 votes

Shyv has a passive on ARAM. She gets +5 Armor/MR for each tower destroyed instead of from dragons.

That said as you mentioned champs are not balanced for ARAM, so there are quite a few that have near useless, if not entirely useless, passives or skills. This is especially more common with newer champs that take greater advantage of things in the SR map in their kits.

Warlord ScrapMay 2, 20171 votes

are you sure because i played her last night and the tooltip says drags still

137434May 2, 20171 votes

It was added in patch 6.24: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-624-notes#patch-shyvana

It was probably too complicated to change the tooltip just for HA since it would require a phrasing change in the text, and not a number change (that is referenced in the tooltip from somewhere else in the coding) like most other HA skill/passive adjustments on champs. So it is likely a hidden passive, but I don't play Shyvana so not sure.

Warlord ScrapMay 2, 20171 votes

thank you i remembered reading it but i couldnt remeber the patch so i figured i was wrong

Anu3isIIMay 2, 20171 votes

Full AP Rek'Sai kinda works, is just that she is much worse than AP Nidalee.

Warlord ScrapMay 2, 20171 votes

kinda works the point wasnt calling out specific champs it was showing that champs arent balanced around aram and certain champs are broken ie sonya and ziggs while some lose alot of there power rek and ivern

Sexy Jack RabbitMay 2, 20172 votes

Tbf Reksai aint much better in a normals.

Warlord ScrapMay 3, 20172 votes

She had her time that she was broken and she did decent in pro but i get your point.

MLDzXnRRRMay 2, 20173 votes

item 3107 This one should be disabled in ARAM.

Jerry SeinfeIdMay 2, 20172 votes

i'd still rather play against her than ziggs in aram.

Warlord ScrapMay 3, 20172 votes

http://www.aram-ranked.info/na/statistics/champion winrates for aram figured itd help the discussion yes sona's winrate is disgusting and shes #1

SettDownShutUpMay 3, 20171 votes

Fun to know,

SciFi ScrivenerMay 2, 20171 votes

I have been enjoying Poro King, but mostly when Sona is banned. Every game I either ban her or request her to be banned. Probably the most broken howling abyss champion in the game.

cPXt3JHpf4May 2, 20171 votes

Shaco with item 3153 item 3068

I laugh at Sona when I played this against people in poro king. Being able to burst someone at low health, being able to kill tanks, being very hard to kill, and doing double damage with the Sunfire cape and the 8% from botrk with my clone i loved annoying the hell outta people. I'm gonna miss poro king :c

http://imgur.com/rgNKkrM

Iźuku MidoriyaMay 2, 20173 votes

clone does less damage than shaco and sunfire doesnt double with the clone, just saying

cPXt3JHpf4May 3, 20171 votes

Sunfire cape i didn't know about. And yes shaco clone does 25% less damage but thats still a lot of damage when you getting hit by him and his clone consistently. Titanic hydra is another item I like to use as well.