Please give Sona more buffs

only zhule·1/22/2020, 1:07:48 AM·2 votes·852 views

Yes i know she is getting the speed buff.

Let's be honest here. The average game is 30 mins or less. Sona is going to spend the first 20 mins, being a bad support pick. By bad i mean she is 31st out of 36 "support" champions, 13-17 of those champions are champions from other roles who just happen to have kits that work for support. She doesn't do enough damage to pressure a lane, her mana costs are so high you can't sustain a lane till you get your 3rd full built item, she doesn't have any tools to set up kills for her allies, and her "buffs" are single use TINY things with no meaningful impact.

I get it, back when "fast" games tended to go to 35 mins, it was fine to have a champion not really do much for the first 15-20 mins. But games are faster now, out of the 36 "support" champions only 2 other champion lacks a hard CC before level 6 (Yuumi , Malphite ) and only 3 have hard to use CC (Fiddlesticks ,Soraka ,Shaco ). 90% of the support champions have hard CC that is "easy" to use. Basically every enchanter support that has come out since Sona's rework 7 years ago has had similar aspects of her kit built into theirs, but ALL of them have been better versions. Nami can literally trigger all 3 aspects of Sona's kit off one point and click spell. Bard 's heal is also a MS boost, he passively gains a slow and cone auto attack. Senna grants movement speed and untargetable to allies around her, has a strong damage and heal spell on a single ability. Rakan has an aoe heal, and shield her can give to allies, he also has a hard engage and disengage tool. ALL of these champions also have a stun/root/knock up in their pre 6 kit. Yuumi is the only new champion without the pre-6 stun, but she gets the benefit of being 1000% untargetable if she chooses.

Just give Sona the ability to effect the game, without needing 3K-8K gold worth of items AND being level 11. Games no longer go long enough for her to play out the "late game power fantasy" that she use to have. So let's just give her an early game where if you outplay your opponents you can win the lane. The buff doesn't need to be her doing 100-200% more damage, it could be something simple like making her buffs 500% more important.

5 Comments

ZephyrDrake1/22/2020, 2:37:34 AM2 votes

No? Sorry but she doesn't need more buffs. This is coming from someone who plays Sona almost exclusively. She is meant to be a scaling champion. I am sorry but let a scaling champion actually scale without them being good at every single stage of the game. Why is it that every solution when a late game champion isn't viable is "just give them a better early game" that is how you create these monsters who never have a weak point in the game. Play one of the many supports with better early game and stop trying to force every single champion in the game to be good at every stage of it.

Nea1041/22/2020, 2:54:01 AM1 votes

Yeeee we fast now! ... oh wait, they had nerfed our E only a few months ago. Such a smart change!

Btw, they buffed Nami who already is a better version of her... So don'ìt expect much by this "competent" people, at least untill the next Sona's skin realease :D