@Riot remember when you said invisible power is bad for the game? (Sona rework, Zeke's)

While I agree with you I think I can see why Riot doesn't consider it "invisible power". The passive does not actually grant any stats or combat benefits, the power it gives is very visible in the form of Morde being several levels above you.

You can't read anything into what Riot says. They ALWAYS contradict themselves when it comes to nerfs and buffs and design changes.

Riot is so contradictory...

It is not invisible power though. It is just straight, blatant power.

i don't know about you but i can see morde's level just fine with my HUD setup. maybe you just need to increase the font size on yours.

in all seriousness old Aona's auras were invisible, and zeke's herald. The only way to see them was to look at the enemies stat screen in the middle of a choatic battle, and they added so little it was never satisfying to get old zekes or support with sona.

when you're lev6 with mordenkaiser you know you're level 6, the enemy knows you're level 6. and everybody knows you're gonna get shit done.

What part of him being 3 levels above you is invisible power? That's extremely obvious, pointed out to you on the UI at all times, face crunching power.

I liked it when they removed Sona's invisible power and replaced it with

I think that design philosophy went out the window with all the newer champions / reworks... just read some of those abilities with like 3 passives on them... there's no way to figure out what these champions do without going to a wiki and trying to decipher their abilities.

Even scarier is a Morde with a zilean support.

Played Graves today while my support Nami had Harbinger. Let me kill their teemo, yasuo, and 1 other before dying because of that 50% crit chance.

I never liked this argument. If Sona's auras being invisible was a problem, why couldn't you just put a range indicator like she has now, and with the color coding? You'd be able to see what aura passive she had and at what range she was giving it clearly. It'd instantly stop being invisible power, and then we wouldn't have her "rework" (in which she just loses base values and scalings because "reasons").

COuld you just imagine DJ Sona with those auras too? Would've been so much more epic with permauras.