Does Sona feel super slow and clunky, or is it just me?

only zhule··2 votes·599 views

Like i play her and i'm just constantly amazed with how slow she and her kit is. Sure late game when you have finally managed to max out your CDR it's a bit easier to deal with, but DAMN if that first 15-20 mins doesn't feel like you could walk away from the computer and make coffee while waiting for her abilities to come back up. I'll even say that Q is in a more or less ok place cooldown wise, but the other 75% of her kit is painfully over taxed CD wise. 10 seconds for an unimpressive heal and a shield that they really need to buff the duration of (let's not lie if it lasted 3 seconds it wouldn't be all that much better), 12 seconds for a really pitiful and short lived movement speed bonus. And let's not forget just how painfully long her ultimate's cooldown is at rank 1. Her one crowd control effect and it's stuck on a 140 second base cooldown. As i said early it "gets better" in the late game when you have maxed your CDR, but that's sort of the issue. Sona is so reliant on getting to that maxed out point that she really doesn't do much until you get there. Even with like 20% CDR your abilities still feel very slow to come up, leaving you in positions where you get to do 1 rotation before the fight is finished. Fights (not hit and run skirmishes) just don't last long enough for Sona to be able to cast her utility abilities enough to make a difference.

There just strikes me as so many little things that could be improved about Sona. Like make her abilities go back to being auras (short lived ones but aura's none the less) instead of one time use bonuses. Allow the empowered attack from her using her Q to be able to hit structures (maybe at a reduced amount but still). Allow the empowered attack from Q to be consumable off abilities as well. Lower her base cooldowns on W and E so they can be used more then once per fight in the early to mid game. Lower the cooldown of her rank one ultimate to 100-120 seconds, she's already lacking CC why make the one she does have be on such a long base cooldown? Turn her empowered E into a stun; 1 second at rank one, with +.25 seconds per rank. Allow her E to give allies the ability to avoid unit collision while it's effecting them. Allow allies effect by her E to ignore slows (can still be stunned, rooted, or suppressed).

As is her E is so-so offensively (assuming you have the CDR to be able to cast it more the once per 10 seconds), but defensively it's basically useless. The range you have to be in to tag your allies often means you can help them without throwing yourself in the fray, even if you do tag an ally they often will not be able to use the full effect of the movement speed buff, due to slows or simply unit collision cutting into most if not all of the time the buff would be active.

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Vesarixx1 votes

Do you run movespeed quints?

only zhule1 votes

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Do you run movespeed quints?

I run her with ability quints. None of the quints seem great on her, +15 movement speed is ok, but not sure it's worth all 3 of the quint slots. Mana regen would mean i could spam my heal (when it's up) more often without running OOM so fast. Hell i could try running the CDR quints, free up a slot so i don't need a 3rd-4th item for my CDR.

Vesarixx1 votes

I've been running 3 movespeed quints for a while now, a lot of supports actually do pretty well with them, though I also run them when I take her mid, since the extra movespeed can help with things like dodging skillshots and repositioning faster

Morgy Morgy1 votes

i'm sure you would be moving slowly if you had tits that size

PhantomGG1 votes

I can honestly agree with this

I really hate Sona, I have a HUGEEEEEE champion pool, but I always believed Sona was trash.

But yesterday I decided to try Sona out, I dont know what brought me to it, but I tried her out, and I went "you are gonna have a clear mind, you are gonna give her a legit chance"

Lane Phase- Sonas bread n butter, heavy Bullying though q, solid sustain with heal, and a vicious level six spike with her ultimate

HOWEVER

She is easy to counter poke since shes fragile, and lacks cc until six

Team Phase- Basically you play as if you were a mid laner, you poke you go in and out, but you also play as this weird enchanter class support, where you speed up the carries and heal them. Than once everyone clumps together

HOWEVER

If you don't build ap items, you scale HORRIBLY, and even if you you are still SQUISHY, your heal is NOTHING compared to something like sorraka, your E/speed is a laughable version of Lu lus speed up, And your Q puts you in danger range, while your ult does not have the biggest hit box.

She is a clunky champion that does not bring much to the table. she needs to be looked at by riot.

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