PSA - Sona got a mountain of significant buffs. Ban her or pick her.
So I was looking through the patch notes, and what I'm reading now makes the games I've played understandable.
Here's a summary of what you can expect from a Sona. I'm posting this because I've been getting matched with some players that seem to be under the impression on a large scale that she was nerfed.
New cooldowns!(level 16):
2.88! 40 cdr valor hymn 2.64! 45 cdr valor hymn base damage only reduced by 40
3.6! 40 cdr aria 3.3! 45 cdr aria shield and heal both increased(by 15 and 30) and the scaling also increased(by 50 and 25 percent)!
4.52! 40 cdr celerity 4.07! 45 cdr celerity celerity new NON-DECAYING movement...also increase of +3 across the board on top of that lasts for 1 extra second. and on top of that the scaling per AP is increased by fifty percent! to top it off the aura duration is doubled
oh and let's not forget the basic ability power chord: an increase at all levels(from 1-18) in damage an increase to the base value debuff(by 25 percent) and an increase to the ap scaling on the debuff by 100 percent!!! okay WTF.
all the other changes are crazy but this is even more crazy. she's literally the strongest champion in the game now. none of the others come close.
The only nerf she got was -40 damage with level 5 hymn(well at levels 2-4 it's -10/-20/-30). That's less than nothing and contradicts the introduction for the Sona changes this patch. "Understandably, we're adjusting the rest of Sona's kit to ensure she doesn’t go off the rails."
The rest of her kit? You changed one thing out of her entire kit to make it weaker. Everything else you made STRONGER!
More like you're adjusting the rest of Sona's kit to ensure she obliterates everything without even trying. And adding one tiny nerf that includes the word damage to make all the TL;DR newbies misunderstand her current power level.