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Octavia From Warframe Is What Sona Should Strive To Be

Breezey Boy·7/30/2018, 6:46:40 AM·6 votes·2,694 views

In almost every moba, there is always the Bard hero, and I mean in the DnD sense not literaly . They are always a musical/magical character with almost all their abilities being auras, usually take little skill to no skill, and are often labeled as "beginner heroes" or "recommended for new players." This is no hate against Sona players, but Sona as a champion perfectly fulfills this overused design for "musical" character.

Octavia from Warframe, however, completely flips this over, taking the classic musical Bard archtype, and making a truly unique gameplay experience. She actually requires skill, her abilities work off of each other to create music and symphonies.

I'm not a gameplay expert, so I don't know how to better put it, but maybe Riot should take a note from Octavia on what the classical Bard could be, rather than the same, bland abilities that are used by most other "Bard" characters.

(Yes, I'm aware Warframe is not a moba, but the point still stands.)

5 Comments

DW Diana7/30/2018, 8:23:48 AM3 votes

Tbh Riot should look at games like Warframe more for inspiration. I mean there are already some similar characters from both even if the fundamental differences in the games make their gameplay naturally different, like Yorick and Nekros.

I'd love to see several "warframes" come to league. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Ghazter7/30/2018, 7:20:49 AM1 votes

I like this, because regardless of whether I agree with your version of it, Sona needs a change. As it is, there's really only one way to build Sona (no matter how hard I try to make Dark Harvest work). The way her passive works could really be upgraded by adding special effect depending on not just the last ability but the order the abilities are used.

Infernape7/30/2018, 7:43:09 AM1 votes

Sona should be the music based version of Invoker from DotA 2 imo

She should mix melodies to create songs and each song should have a different effect.

Sex With Annie7/31/2018, 2:13:56 AM1 votes

Do you even know what you're talking about? For anyone not familiar with octavias kit:

Octavias 1: You press the ability and a beacon shows up that does damage for you Octavias 2: You press the ability and a ball shows up that moves the beacon for you Octavias 3: You press the ability and do a few gimmicks like "crouch alot" or "jump alot" to get what are basically free buffs Octavias 4: You press the ability and you do more damage

Where's the skill or fun in this again?