I have a DJ Sona skin and I like playing her, but people say that's she far too squishy (which is the reason for most of my Sona losses) but some say that she has spammable buffs and would be a really good support for zoning and poking. I want to make sure that the DJ Sona skin is really worth it for playing a champ for season 5, and if it's not I would refund it to buy more skins and to buy a Harrowing skin for the Harrowing sale.
Pika3103 votesSona is currently the weakest champ in the support class if not in the entire game. She has the lowest base damage and AD of all supports and the 2nd lowest potential after Braum. Her heal is the weakest and most expensive in the game and her shield is the weakest and shortest-duration amongst supports, both halves by huge margins. She's the only support with a ranged spell less than 550 units, in which she has a grand total of THREE that are an impossibly low 350 each. She's the 2nd-sqishiest support just after Zyra, but despite this is the only support without hard CC pre-6 and is trapped in the lowest MS tier. Her ult is one of the weakest amongst CC ults and has one of the longest CDs of support ults.
If patch 4.13 had never occurred, I would've gladly bought DJ myself. As she is right now, there's no logical reason to EVER play her, especially while Nami and Bard remain superior carbon copies of her. Both of them have the same kit, feel and playstyle of Sona, but can do literally everything she does, but far better.
RedCyclone2 votesTake her mid and go full AP, it's fun and it may surprise you what she can do If you pick support Sona you are going to have the most boring experience in your life as you realize that most of her power is invisible and your skills do literally nothing after level 10 outside of ult
take it from someone who has been playing Sona since she was made in season 1
DrNova1 votesThis
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CIockw0rk2 votesSona is good right now, Sona's players suck most of the time right now. She is a really pain in laning phase even if played incorrectly.
Sona players fall off hard when it's time to roam, ward and teamfights. She can do great things in fight and travel somewhat safely due to her speed. But she is a one shot killed. I dont like Sona.
Ravenhale2 votesI'm 15W / 20L with Sona. In those games I am 129/303/494 with a (K+A)/D of 2. I can usually figure out by the three minute mark how cautious I need to play (have they tried killing me every time I use Q).
Compared to other supports, Sona feels like she does so little to help her ADC since her W is so expensive and will OOM you to uselessness in seconds. Your poke is weak but reliable compared to other supports. Without the follow up AA, Q is not that devastating. Like others have said, she works well with aggressive ADC that gives enough lane pressure for Sona to augment. She can't pressure a lane by herself (well, maybe if the enemy is afraid or passive, she can).
In my experience, Sona is a mid game champ. Once she has rank 3 Q and Sheen (after Sightstone), she can severely punish out of position squishies. I'd say at this point, even if my ADC has been pushed under tower all game, I will start being stupid aggressive because I can chunk an ADC down to half health fast. If the support isn't a tank, I can do the same to them. Sure, the ADC can nearly flat line Sona in the same time frame, but if they go after Sona, her ADC will probably get a double. If they focus her ADC, Sona is quite capable of getting a double on her own. If she opens with her R, she might even get away without taking any damage at all.
I don't think Sona will be very viable at a high level of play. I have never been able to shut down a snowball with her the way I can with Janna or Soraka. I imagine more experienced players would know how easy it is to out trade Sona's early game, pushing back her mid game to the point of irrelevance.
But I don't know why people say the only thing she has is her ult in the late game. A LichBane/DeathCap Sona hitting any squishie with R/Q/AA is instant death. I've knocked a Vayne to 1/4 health without using Sona's ult. ADC don't seem to be in the habit of building MR. I had a game (43 min loss) where Sona was putting out 800 dmg a minute. I can't offer that sort of damage with other supports, mostly because there is so much reliable damage in Sona's kit. The only other "support" that I can think of that could effortlessly match this would be Annie.
And as for Sona mid... I'm a bit too timid to try that out. I'd do a Braum/Sona duo with Yasuo (AD) mid before trying to shoulder the role of APC. Sona feels like such an easy target for ganks and doesn't get any less squishy in a 1v1 against a standard mid laner.
Shac Norris1 votesPick what you like... unless your team really needs a tank, you don't have to go full damage on sona support, just 1 ap item and ~2 tank items works just fine on her, she's not that squishy when you start building her according to what kind of damage the enemy deals :l
DrNova6 votesSon a only does anything useful with full ap. Any other support is just a better option. Playing her sup is hardly even fun anymore.
Shac Norris5 votesGotta agree about that. only her ultimate is worth it :l and every single other support craps on her
HentRex1 votesI'm not to sure about that. Just picked sona back couple days ago have gone 4-0 with her. First game was bad and I went 3/9/21 but that's because I forgot how to position with her. Next 3 games I went 9/11/59. The thing about Sona is you have to get ahead early and really snowball. You can't play passive with her. Q is still one of the strongest lvl1 abilities in the game. If you haven't snowballed then ya late game the only thing she has is her ult.
DrNova5 votes4-0 isnt enough games to matter yet. And you might be able to surprise for a while since she isn't picked often.
But the key to beating sona is to engage her hard when she comes up to poke. One of the easiest sups to kill
HentRex2 votesAbsolutely true, Positioning is the key with Sona though. The 4-0 is only since I picked her back up. She had been my main for a long time. And your right about the surprising part. I've been basically doing the same thing every game here. Charge up Q on gromp for jungler, then q aa the adc lvl1 and they are at 1/2 hp already. There goes their potion. Rinse and repeat. I've zoned every adc by level 3 and we get double cs by the time we take tower. Will this continue? Hell no, I know that. I'm just saying that Sona can still win you games, and that she's not that gutted. IMO she is the strongest lvl 1 support atm.
Shac Norris1 votesAny game is winnable with any champion, even urgot poppy bot.
Try sona in ranked for a couple of games, you get hit by a single braum Q or Tahm Q or thresh Q and you're basically dead if you don't ult
HentRex1 votesBeen playing her in ranked. Have gone something like 8-4 this past month, 1-1 vs Braum 2-1 vs Thresh and 2-0 vs Blitz and Morg. I went 0-1 vs Tahm but that was because I didn't respect him and was overconfident. One was completely my fault, the others, we forced bad fights when behind but we had won our lane. The thing about it is Sona's range is pretty large, and positioning is key. All of your examples get blocked by minions so you q when the enemy adc comes in to cs from right behind your minion then aa and back off. None of them offer sustain outside of targon's which both stacks might equal one aa/q combo. Thresh is the only Tanky utility that gives you a problem with his range and flay that goes through minions. Normally wouldn't pick Sona into a Thresh anyways. But you are right if you take a cc to the face you're most likely dead. Unless you zone them off from the get go. Not saying Sona is op and the best support. Just saying she's not that weak.
The Fast1 votesWhen Sona doesn't go full AP, she becomes really useless. She needs AP for any of her basic skills to mean anything. That is, she should still be getting sightstone and the support item, but AP is very important.
Shac Norris1 votesTbh, she doesn't need to deal the most damage in the game, she's a support and should be treated as such.
Even though morgana does things better than she does in any way.
LadyRenly1 votesTbh, she doesn't need to deal the most damage in the game, she's a support and should be treated as such.
Even though morgana does things better than she does in any way.
You don't buy AP for damage(although poke is nice), you buy it so your abilities support more. A sona with no AP is going to have weak heals, same with Soraka(which is why tankraka fails)
The Fast1 votesSona has utility scalings. She needs AP so that her abilities do more of what they are supposed to.
Also, a Sona with a Lich Bane can unload 650 + 140%AP with a Q passive auto. Not saying she's leBlanc, but she certainly does a ton of damage.
Dreadlocks1 votesA good sona will always make her work.. She can really fuck shit up. The only downside with sona as she has an ulti that for some reason scares your own teamates more than the enemy.
My buddy use to main her and like 80% of the time he ulti'd our team would not follow up or legit turn away lol. 
But yeah 
carries in the bot lane ;)
Echutaaa1 votesSo, just go full AP Mid Sona?
Aeolian Melodies1 votesShe is good if you build her with the supportish AP items and know how to position properly.
ChaosReignsDown1 votesI see a lot of ppl asking if XXXX Champ is good or bad. I think the problem is that a lot of ppl dont know how to adjust what they are building for the team they are fighting. They build the same thing EVERY game. Learn how to build to counter the damage on the other team. Sona is my main. I love melting ppl while healing/buffing my team and the Ult can turn a team fight so fast..
P.S
Upgraded my PC.. went from having around 20 fps, to about 130 fps... its a whole new game. lol
TyroneWatermelon1 votesAs long as you know how to mash keyboard and how to rift click you're fine
Kivolan1 votesI like Sona for two ADCs: Kalista and Vayne. You have a lot of wombo potential with Kalista; her W passive is easy to proc while you're poking away and her ult + your ult is a good 3 seconds of CC if you time it properly. For Vayne, she can actually help peel for you if it's needed. Even if they focus you and you die, Vayne is probably going to walk away with a double anyway. :P
Zorae422 votesShe's also quite fun with Graves. Really fun locking down kills with ult+powerchord+Graves ridiculous burst.
She's good with most lane bully ADCs, since they can take advantage of her early game poke and actually make it a kill lane and you can snowball/afford the AP items she needs. An adc that has some sort of peel/cc helps too since her only reliable peel is her ult.
Twitch and Kog are usually terrible partners. You'd think Ez would be good due to his good poke and Lucian due to his double tap dmg synergizing with the aura on your Q... But they always seem to go in at the wrong time/get caught out without their mobility skill. And then blame you for not being able to rescue them for their bad decision.... Or get mad that you rushed in there to save them, their mobility came off of CD after you healed them, and they left you to die. Or if your ult isn't always off CD or you didn't use it to hit just one person when there were 3 coming after them. At least that's what usually happens for me, I may just be unlucky.
Playing against a Caitlyn REALLY sucks. And any adc that prepares for your poke since they can out trade you because Sona is really squishy.
Kivolan1 votes...Why are we getting downvoted? These fucking forums. =/
Aeolian Melodies1 votesI like Sona for two ADCs: Kalista and Vayne. You have a lot of wombo potential with Kalista; her W passive is easy to proc while you're poking away and her ult + your ult is a good 3 seconds of CC if you time it properly. For Vayne, she can actually help peel for you if it's needed. Even if they focus you and you die, Vayne is probably going to walk away with a double anyway. :P
I like Sona mostly on poke-heavy ADC who trade well early game to further complement her ability to bully people out of bot lane. If they have their own escape to make for her below average peel, it's even better. I'm not a fan of picking Sona with a vulnerable carry like 
, one that needs to hit early game to do something 
, or those who really love lock down and burst more than a poke fest 
. Generally speaking though, Sona's generalist nature as a support lets her be an okay partner for virtually any lane, but she just isn't optimal with some of them.
has always been a good fit for Sona and will always be. Though not as synergetic as before her rework, the fact that his Q procs Sona's Q buff makes for strong and incredibly safe poke in lane. They have very good burst at 6, most bot laners will die if caught in Crescendo and combo'd by Ezreal and Sona.
long range means she can easily use your Q buff, safety means you won't be needing to heal her up too often which means more mana to poke. Has her own escape + traps so your lack of non-ultimate peel isn't too bad for her.
Good trading power (albeit from short range), mobility, excellent ult synergy.
Though this lane relies 100% on kiting and positioning to survive, they have good trading tools together, and the threat of a double stun at lvl 6 is nothing to scoff at.
Though she lacks escape, she has fabulous bullying potential and naturally outrades a lot of ADCs - Sona's buffs, heals and shields only make it better. Ults synergy cannot be denied.
Ult synergy, woooh. Varus has good trade, nice, safe poke, and landing either ult (or both) typically equals a dead enemy.
ProfDrDeath1 voteshttp://champion.gg/champion/Sona/Support
Looks pretty decent to me.
In the grand scheme of things, current meta is rather unfavorable for her in competitive: Sona is not that great in lane swaps, as she is a bad early roamer, and doesn't help much in killing an enemy under turret early on either.
However, in most of solo queue, you're not going to see a lane swap, and Sona can be pretty crushing in a 2vs2 lane - but only if the enemy has no reliable means of getting her (see match-up section - she crushes things like Bard, Tahm Kench, Taric, but gets crushed by the Leonas and Blitzcranks of the world).
Stonington1 votesShe's alright. If you like the skin, like playing Sona, and got the skin on discount you should keep it. Otherwise you should refund it.
Fiveofswords1 votesthe riot balancing team is naturally capable of making errors...they are human. But i tihnk they do a pretty good job overall, and every champion is rather playable. some are better in certain compositions or versus certain compositions, but nothing is ever really 'trash'. Anyone who feels otherwise should jsut go take their job, and if they are too scared to, or discovered to be unqualified, they shoudl basically stfu. Never listen to the peanut gallery opinion about things. Not about lol champs, not about religion, communism, etc. Nothing.