Sona's Mana Costs

crzymdscntst·12/12/2017, 6:04:50 PM·24 votes·1,553 views

Am I the only one who thinks Sona's mana costs were already too high?

I'm reading these patch notes and her Q's cost was buffed to 15 more mana per rank.

Her mana pool as-is: 341 – 1106 One full spell cycle (Q, W, E) is 205 mana. (At level 3, that's out of a 407 mana pool.) That gives her about 2 cycles through her basic skills.

I get that she's a problem in some cases, but maybe this wasn't the change to make. Playing her and going OOM, you still had to take 5 to wait for mana regen to compensate in some cases. This will only compound her already inherent issue with costs.

16 Comments

Swarovsko12/12/2017, 10:30:04 PM8 votes

That's why everyone in higher elos started building item 3070 . They also do this with Nami .

DuskDaUmbreon12/13/2017, 12:56:34 AM7 votes

They needed to hit her Q. But buffing the mana cost that high was too much. Cutting the damage early-on would have been enough. Reduce her damage level 1-5. That'd have brought her into line without making her useless.

Morticianjohn12/12/2017, 8:57:28 PM5 votes

Constant mana issues on her. Even late game which is one of the few to have mana issues late game

AuraCreed12/12/2017, 7:16:14 PM5 votes

I was already building goddess tear on her but now I feel like it's a rush item and it sucks.

Proxy34512/13/2017, 4:10:45 AM5 votes

Riot secretly wants Sona players to use Presence of Mind from the precision tree for all that free mana from levellng up lol

Shablagoo12/13/2017, 6:38:13 AM3 votes

Probably cuz their is no real risk when using her skills. Honestly everything is point click except for her ult, so the only real challenge for the champion is mana management. Which really shouldnt be an issue with all the mana options mages get now.

M00ndanc312/13/2017, 1:15:04 AM3 votes

i just go item 3070 into item 3098 with mana flow band and then ill get item 3028 gives a ton of sustain mana and allows me to reduce poke from ap supports while spaming abilities

Battalion12/13/2017, 3:42:43 AM2 votes

item 3003

RocketRelm12/13/2017, 4:48:30 AM2 votes

She may actually beat out Blitzcrank in terms of early game mana penalties now.

Linna Excel12/13/2017, 4:51:30 AM1 votes

IMO get manaflow band on her and rush a tear after your support GP item.

Solidair312/13/2017, 3:17:13 PM1 votes

I mean sorta? I think the only spellcost I had a problem with is her E, but early on I tend to use that pretty rarely.

Before this change I could pretty much cast Q without a care in the world for the entirety of lane about running out of mana.

W is appropriately expensive in my opinion. I haven't tried her this patch, to be honest, but I imagine I'm going to take biscuit delivery and manaflow band to help out.