PSA - Sona got a mountain of significant buffs. Ban her or pick her.

SanKakU··5 votes·585 views

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.

4 Comments

L8t4 votes

But leona is the true beneficiary of patch 6.14

Zach Sandwhich1 votes

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But leona is the true beneficiary of patch 6.14

I dont really like new leona tbh. Like I can see why she's better now but I feel like the damage nerfs really cut down her early game which is why I enjoyed her to begin with.

SanKakU1 votes

Dude, Leona got 4 individual nerfs. Sona got one. Leona got 4 individual buffs(one of them is new and sure it's nice...but nothing on the scale of what Sona got). I'm not even going to count how many buffs Sona just got. I listed them there, so if someone else wants to, be my guest.

SnugglePuggle942 votes

They are buffs to her utility, which really she needed them to be honest, and a few to her damage but thats of her passive. Of course, they could've gone another way about it by not making it too extremely strong but again, it's Riot. They will probably overnerf her to compensate for their lack of knowledge in balancing.

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