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PLACE YOUR BETS: What Sona will look like at the end of 2015

Essorance·1/6/2015, 1:47:56 PM·68 votes·8,808 views

Whoever comes closest by 31 December 2015 wins £/$/€50.

After casting 3 basic abilities, Sona's next basic attack will deal 13 / 20 / 27 / 35 / 43 / 52 / 62 / 72 / 82 / 92 / 102 / 112 / 122 / 132 / 147 / 162 / 177 / 192 (6 + 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 15 at each level) (+ 20% AP) **0 **bonus magic damage, with an additional effect depending on the last basic ability cast.

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Active: Sona sends out bolts of sound that deal magic damage to the two nearest enemies within 850 450-range, prioritizing champions minions.

Magic Damage: 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 45 (+ 510% AP)

Aura: Sona and allied champions tagged with Hymn of Valor's aura deal bonus magic damage do nothing special on their next basic attack within 3 seconds.

On-hit Magic Damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (+ 20% AP) (+ 10 / 20 / 40)

Power Chord - Staccato: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord deals 50% bonus damage.

W Active: Sona heals herself and a nearby allied champion with the lowest health percentage. The healing is indecreased by 0.5% for every 1% of the target's missing health.

Heal: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (+ 20% AP)

Max. Heal: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 200 / 200 / 200 / 200 / 200 (+ 3010% APD) dat buff tho

Aura: Sona and allied champions tagged with Aria of Perseverance's aura are shielded for up to 1.5 seconds.

Shield Strength: 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 (+ 20% AP) (+ 10 / 20 / 40)

Diminuendo: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord will also ~~reduce ~~ increase the target's damage output by 2050% (+ 2% per 100 AP) for 3 seconds.

W Active: Sona gains a burst of bonus movement speed that decays down to the aura bonus over 3 seconds. The duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for each ally she tags with the aura.

Self Bonus Movement Speed: 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17% (+ 7.5% per 100 AP) (+ 2% x Crescendo.png Crescendo's rank)

Aura: Allied champions tagged with Song of Celerity's aura gain movement speed for 1.5 seconds.

Aura Bonus Movement Speed: 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14% (+ 3.5% per 100 AP) (+ 2% x Crescendo.png Crescendo's rank)

Power Chord - Tempo: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord will also Slow icon slow the target by 40% (+ 4% per 100 AP) for 2 seconds.

REWORKED - Hi guys Stashu here, Sona's E now does nothing besides apply a stack of 'Gotta go fast'. At ~~500 ~~1000 stacks Sona gains a permanent 10% 5% movement speed buff and half off that to allies within ~~800 ~~400 range. :D

R Active: Sona plays an irresistible chord in a line~~, dealing magic damage to enemy champions and Stun icon stunning them for 1.5 seconds~~, forcing them to dance (But still able to attack, move, etc. just makes the dance animation play).

Magic Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 50% AP)

Only you can nerf me Rito. What abilities shall we gut today? Sona

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42 Comments

LankPants1/6/2015, 2:04:37 PM38 votes

A caster minion?

LuckyReden1/6/2015, 4:35:37 PM35 votes

An elixer that takes up a champion slot.

Narasimha1/6/2015, 2:42:06 PM21 votes

Man you lost your own bet.

My money is that they're going to nerf her some more, take a look at her, go "whoops", then overbuff her, then go "whoops" again, then bring her back to normal. And we'll all just be like "...Was this necessary?"

Ulquiorra9951/6/2015, 3:04:05 PM18 votes

She's going to become Urgot tier real fast. Hell, I feel much more useful playing Urgot than Sona - switching enemy squishy into my team while placing my tanky disruptive ass into theirs is much more satisfying than being a weaker in every aspect and much less safe version of Nami.

AquariusGine1/6/2015, 2:14:14 PM17 votes

Sona will look like a fat minion with two balloons

Origami Kaiju1/6/2015, 6:43:22 PM8 votes

Q Active: Sona sends out bolts of sound that deal magic damage to the two nearest allies within 850 450-range, prioritizing teammates by lowest health.

W Active: Sona heals a nearby enemy champion and buffs their armor/MR by 50 for 3 seconds. If there are no nearby enemy champions to heal, at activation Sona will take 75 magic damage as compensation.

E Active: at activation, for the next 10 seconds all ally ms is reduced by 20. This effect is doubled on your minions to -40.

R Active: unchanged :D

Sirin Gioro1/7/2015, 12:03:15 AM6 votes

Rito be like, "cuz no one fucking plays sona on LCS and she's cancer in aram, ayyyyy lmaoooo" How about Lee, rito? wtf?? Every time I have Sona on my team she's just soooooo fucking useless. Yea whenever I play Sona I feel useless, too. I didn't know why I bought the Silent Night Sona skin. RIP 520 RP I respect Sona mains. If my main got gutted like that, I'd definitely find another champion to main instead of waiting for incoming buffs.

Pika3101/6/2015, 4:55:14 PM6 votes

Great minds think alike, I believe this is what she'll look like:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/9F4zxLbO-proposed-sona-rework

#BetterNerfSona

Blastermine1/6/2015, 2:21:51 PM5 votes

Exactly like she looked late 2013? People have been making the melee minion jokes for years.

Hetchy1/6/2015, 11:38:55 PM4 votes

She deserves it.

Where were you during the Raka nerfs?

Fuck Sona.

Rebonack1/6/2015, 11:43:18 PM4 votes

She'll look like a champion in the top twenty win-rate with the winiest player-base in League.

If you want a champion who got destroyed, look to Twitch or Eve. Sona isn't anywhere CLOSE to the level of over-nerfed.

DarthSpectrum1/7/2015, 3:04:13 AM4 votes

I disagree with you, these nerfs will not happen.

Not because RIto will see the errors of their way mid-way while working on Sona, no. The reason will probably be because that even the most dedicated Sona mains will give up hope before she is brought to this condition, and with no one playing her, Riot will have no needs to nerf her.

Jokes aside, I completely concur with your point that she is being punished far too harshly for no apparent reason. It is not as if she is a good pick or anything; most other supports far out-class her in terms of utility or damage. No one has even asked for Sona nerfs, there is absolutely no purpose in doing this if the player base finds her agreeable, Meanwhile, champions such as Lee Sin or Fizz that could be toned down are still untouched for eons.

Jeddy0171/7/2015, 5:43:31 AM4 votes

By the end of the year,the only thing left to nerf are the boobs.Afterall,the boobs will be a distraction in lane & don't provide any room for counterplay.

BETTERNERFSONA

Potato Doc1/7/2015, 6:09:19 AM4 votes

i believe they will eventually run out of stats to nerf and so they will nerf her boobs too just to nerf something else

Rainplosion1/7/2015, 6:54:50 AM4 votes

Then sona will achieve a 100% ban ratio (cause no one wants her on their team). riot will decide that she needs more nerfs.

ClatoVerataNicto1/6/2015, 5:58:43 PM3 votes

She'll look like this.

AetherKingdom1/7/2015, 1:50:31 AM2 votes

I usually defend Sona nerfs but god damn that E made me laugh

Rei Tenshi1/7/2015, 7:50:02 PM2 votes

Q: Heals the nearest 2 enemies. W: Deals damage to your nearest allies. E: Speeds up the enemy R: Global stun your own team.

AHeroNamedHawke1/6/2015, 4:50:48 PM2 votes

Exactly the same just like every other time they've given her a love tap

Avios11/6/2015, 10:02:10 PM1 votes

Boooooooobiiieeeeeeessss

TheKingDodo1/6/2015, 8:43:31 PM1 votes

W: cost 50% (+10% for each additional teammate healed up to 80%) of her current health heals allies (within 300 range) for 1% of the health cost 6/5/4/3/2 sec CD pretty good buff I'd say.

SensualMuffins1/8/2015, 4:19:10 AM1 votes

HEALTH 405 – 1772 | ATTACK DAMAGE 50 – 101 HEALTH REGEN. 4.2 – 13.6 | ATTACK SPEED [*] 0.644 (+0% – 39.1%) MANA 330 – 1116 | ARMOR 16.5 – 71.2 MANA REGEN. 6.5 – 13.4 | MAGIC RES. 30.0 RANGED 550 | MOV. SPEED 325

Passive: Power Chord - After casting 3 basic abilities, Sona's next basic attack will deal 8 / 17 / 27 / 38 / 54 / ... (3 + 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 13 at each level) (+ 20% AP) bonus magic damage, with an additional effect depending on the last basic ability cast.

Q: Hymn of Valor - ACTIVE: Sona sends out bolts of sound that deal magic damage to the two nearest enemies within 850-range, prioritizing champions.

MAGIC DAMAGE: 30 / 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 (+ 35% AP)

AURA: Sona and allied champions tagged with Hymn of Valor's aura deal bonus magic damage on their next basic attack within 3 seconds.

ON-HIT MAGIC DAMAGE: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 (+ 25% AP) (+ 10 / 20 / 40)

POWER CHORD - STACCATO: If this spell was last cast when Power Chord is ready, Power Chord deals 50% bonus damage.

W: Aria of Perseverance - ACTIVE: Sona heals herself and a nearby allied champion with the lowest health percentage. The healing is increased by 0.5% for every 1% of the target's missing health.

HEAL: 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 (+ 15% AP) MAX. HEAL: 40 / 70 / 100 / 120 / 160 (+ 25% AP)

AURA: Sona and allied champions tagged with Aria of Perseverance's aura are shielded for up to 1.5 seconds.

SHIELD STRENGTH: 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 / 130 (+ 20% AP) (+ 10 / 20 / 40)

E: Song of Celerity - UNCHANGED

R: Crescendo - UNCHANGED

Miku Lv991/7/2015, 12:56:40 PM1 votes

Movespeed reduced by 5. Q power chord now only deals 25% bonus damage. W now only heals 10/20/30/40/50 +0.2AP HP, increased by 1% for each 2% of missing health. E now only gives 10/11/12/13/14 +0.02AP % movespeed. R now has a windup like a thresh hook. Your opponents can see you winding it up for 3 seconds and then it finally casts. And these 3 seconds are channeled and if you're cc'd then the whole thing is lost. But to compensate it now deals 350/550/750 +0.6AP damage and stuns for 3 seconds.

RavenKouhai1/7/2015, 1:30:56 AM1 votes

She won't even have any damage/scale, she'll just give her allies ms buff, flat ap/ad boost, heal, and her ult will just be a stun.