@Meddler @RiotRepertoir Any new info on Sona getting love before Worlds?

Captain Lito··3 votes·433 views

A lot discussion already happened concerning Sona's current status so I won't repeat it here, I'm just asking if those lead to anywhere help-wise before Worlds. I love Sona's character and her gameplay (including being able to one shot with q) and I'll feel bad for her if she doesn't make a showing. Zyra got her buffs, will Sona get hers too? Sona item 3070

Please don't downvote me for this, I'm just asking a question about a midlaner/support that I like quite a bit, if you have a problem with Sona/me just leave the thread alone.

As a final point, I'd like to quote MotherTeresa1910's point on Sona as to why she isn't played as much:

I think it's because in the past she didn't need gold to function at all. Her auras were just base stats, they didn't need to scale off of anything. But now she scales off of AP in absolutely everything and her base values are frankly quite poor. Her poke in particular is pretty much balanced around her picking up a Sheen at this point, which quite simply isn't going to happen in competitive play.

Also, as another guy said, people are just terrible at playing against her in solo q. People call Sona easy but against a good opponent she's really not, which is the problem with competitive. Playing aggressively with a champion who's made out of paper has a ton of risks associated with it, especially against tanky supports who can genuinely 100-0 her if they land their engage in the early levels. But she's balanced around people not retaliating because solo q players are a lot more likely to run away from Sona's poke than they are to fight her back, even though after she's used her damage is the best possible time to attack her.

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Smegma1231 votes

Lol "please don't downvote me" "if you have a problem just leave me alone" the fear of the troll army is real. This forum needs to up and have some more respect for each other if its citizens are this scared.

Yes I am also interested in Sona buffs if any. My favourite support.

Captain Lito1 votes

I think I have reasoning for being cautious, the forums can be really sensitive sometimes >.<

masc dom top1 votes

she was supposed to be an aura support. right now all she can do is poking the enemy adc if he is bad. against skilled people she cant go for empowered auto attacks because it is very obvious and she can be engaged on (thresh q/e, leona e, blitz q, morgana q, nami q...). her q is very weak without the empowered auto attack, hell even graves smokescreen does more damage than sonas q. her w has very high mana cost and the heal is very small as well as the shield. the e ability isnt useful in the laning phase. it is worse talisman/righteous glory. you literally need to hug your teammates for her auras. her passive q falls off, and the slow isnt too strong, but the damage reduction is great as she can take ignite and still have a pseudo exhaust. atm she is just a weaker nami (longer range, better sustain, more cc on lower cooldown, can boost her allies movement speed and auto attack, her e gives 3 for nami or her adc, sona needs to use 3 spells for it and can slow somebody only 1 time). the only thing sona can do and nami cant is shielding her teammates with a very small shield and reduce the enemies damage. she needs something that nami cant do. all utility supports got some attention expect sona. i would really love to see some changes that make her more unique and viable.

Captain Lito1 votes

I actually think her Q is really strong right now , even without the amp, it's just that they put too much power into her Q's base values and not into her W/E. (Especially her E, her E is just useless). Her ult passive helps this a bit, but not enough. What I'm thinking:

Hymn of Valor (Q): Base Values reduced to 30 / 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 from 40 / 80 / 120 / 160 / 200

Aria of Perseverance (W): Minimum Heal increased to 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 from 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 (Need someone to calculate the maximum heal, but at max rank it would be ~200 at lvl 5 from 165)

Song of Celerity (E): Ally movement speed duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5 Teammate MS increased to 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15% from 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14%

I don't think she would come out broken if these changes were applied, the only other thing I would do nerf-wise is reduce the base value of her q but buff the ap ratio.

masc dom top1 votes

her q damage is strong but making it work is hard. her q range is 800 for 200 damage which is not that much. pots and relic shield make her poke useless. going for one auto attack puts her into the range of enemy cc like thresh q, bc q, nami bubble, leona e, morgana q. if she gets caught, she is dead because is she very very squishy (melee minions have 40 hp less than sona at lvl 1) and cant disengage at all (ult cd is very high). i liked her much more before the rework because she was an aura support with some poke and some sustain. now she is just a q bot. her w is a worse locket, her e is a worse talisman. she is just a weaker nami. but sona is sona and she will always have a special place in my heart Sona item 3151

Captain Lito2 votes

Yeah, I'm hoping that they decide to return her to an aura support, she was way more fun back then.

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