For the love of god Riot, stop trying to balance Sona for ARAM and just perma ban her from the mode

Postal Miku·Dec 23, 2014·2 votes·924 views

The healing nerf she took was to clearly tone down her presence in ARAM The upcoming nerf is to screw AP Sona, something what 99% of people play when they get Sona in ARAM

There is literally 0 reasons to nerf her on SR but many to nerf her on ARAM The only complaints about Sona come from ARAM and new game modes

Stop treating her like Mundo back in 2009 where you had him nerfed because of his presence on Twisted Treeline, we already know this chaotic way of balancing does not work

6 Comments

futuresight23Dec 23, 20142 votes

The next nerf to a champion for ARAM purposes will be the 1st nerf for ARAM purposes ever.

Besides, this last season or so Riot has attempted to balance champions for specific maps like Kassadin and Lulu on Dominion. Sure they haven't bothered balancing champs specifically for ARAM, but the ability to do so is there.

Riot definitely thinks that its not just ARAM where Sona is too strong right now and the problem is that there seems to be a large difference between what Riot thinks Sona's power level is and what a lot of people on the forum think Sona's power level is. Not to mention Sona is probably pretty high up on the LoL Waifu Power Rankings (I don't know if that really exists).

Postal MikuDec 23, 20141 votes

Then the rework has completely failed The entire reason for the rewrok was for them to stop Sona having invisible power what makes her more powerful then the player actually feels If this is still how Riot feels about her then she needs another rework, because she is in no better position then she was in the past

This comes from someone who actually likes the new Sona, but the underlying problem is her invisible power is still there, and nerf after nerf I find I want the old Sona back more and more The nerfs do nothing to hit her invisible power, because it's a hard thing to balance, so hitting her active and "viewable" power is what they are doing This just makes people not want to play Sona at all

AtheosisXDec 23, 20141 votes

How her power could be invisible to people is beyond me. Oh look the damage I jut did got erased. Oh look it happened again. Oh look there's a shield on my target right before they were about to die. Oh look I'm dancing uncontrollably. Oh look I'm dead.

EffectFXDec 23, 20141 votes

You completely misunderstand the point of a rework.

AtheosisXDec 23, 20142 votes

The healing nerf on the PBE for ARAM is going to fix her and all the other healers but good.

Also the nerfs to Sona were because she was dominating high elo play, not because of ARAM.

KingsgraveDec 23, 20141 votes

Supports in general should be banned from ARAM. Being able to get gold as a dedicated utility character is just broken. Leona and Braum can stay I guess. Taric, Nami, Soraka, Sona, Janna, Lulu should be banned in it though.

I wish they would give Sona more in the circle bonuses for her allies rather than just straight nerfs, but I dont play her so I dont know what to do to her.