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Suggestions for Sona Nerfs

redfeenix·Jul 16, 2016·1 votes·1,309 views

Hey Sona is hella OP right now, lets brainstorm some possible ways to nerf her:

Changes I liked: Larger Aura radius: Feels more satisfying since I dont have to hug my team. Sound spreads in a large area so it makes sense.

High AP Ratios: I always like seeing off meta roles. AP Sona Mid should be a build in the future! (Not Too OP though). Some other AP Mid/Supports: Karma, Lux, Zyra, Lulu, Zilean etc. I like mages that are viable both mid and support.

Keep her Low HP/Armour. She is really squishy and should stay that way.

Some suggestions for potential nerfs: -Increase her cooldowns!: Songs should take a while to play. It doesnt make sense to switch them every half note. She has to commit to a single song, this will separate the good Sonas from the button mashers.

Remove passive CDR from R. Related to above

Remove shields from W: Heal is good enough, shields is way too much

Sona's Q Should Hit only 1 Target, instead of 2: will make her less OP in bot as she can only 1 harass 1 person at a time.

Sona's E Movement speed boost should decay over time and be shorter in duration. _She has to keep spamming it if she wants to keep running. _

I suggested these changes because I hope they will be fair nerfs. I also like Sona and would like to Play her mid in the future, just like other AP Supports. However she is just too strong ATM. If you have any suggestions Please post them and I Can add them to this list.

Thanks for reading

9 Comments

KONO RUBICK DAJul 16, 20166 votes

This thread gave me cancer

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Hey Sona is hella OP right now

You must be joking!

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Changes I liked: Larger Aura radius: Feels more satisfying since I dont have to hug my team. Sound spreads in a large area so it makes sense.

Yes, you liked one of your weakness being removed, the fact that sona had to go in melee so her enemies could deal with her was a bad design was it? must remove this weakness so she is even more op

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High AP Ratios: I always like seeing off meta roles. AP Sona Mid should be a build in the future! (Not Too OP though).

This has noting to do with being able to play AP sona mid, but rather shifting early game power into late game power

{quoted} Keep her Low HP/Armour. She is really squishy and should stay that way.

literally the only thing smart that was said in this thread

{quoted} Some suggestions for potential nerfs: -Increase her cooldowns!: Songs should take a while to play. It doesnt make sense to switch them every half note. She has to commit to a single song, this will separate the good Sonas from the button mashers. Remove passive CDR from R. Related to above

Yes, let's bring logic into a video game shall we? if you want to seperate good sona from bad sona, you should bring a global 1 sec cooldown on every spell every time she casts a spell like she used to have before her rework. Blame riot for making us able to smash every melodies without thinking every time they are up.

{quoted} Remove shields from W: Heal is good enough, shields is way too much

can't tell if i need to comment this or not.

{quoted} Sona's Q Should Hit only 1 Target, instead of 2: will make her less OP in bot as she can only 1 harass 1 person at a time.

same here, i feel like you just took random fact and you're like "hey guys i said this, this is right "

{quoted} Sona's E Movement speed boost should decay over time and be shorter in duration. _She has to keep spamming it if she wants to keep running.

she already does to get more power chorde stacks

bottledpoopJul 16, 20161 votes

But what separates good sonas from bad is being able to play her etwal that fast. I think it fits great thematically. Thats what sona should be doing in a teamfight, going absolutely ham on her etwal. I disagree with the decreased cooldowns and the removal of the ult passive.

redfeenixJul 16, 20161 votes

whats an etwal bud?

I guess spamming her skills is kinda like playing the keyboard or something huh. Interesting parallel.

bottledpoopJul 16, 20161 votes

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whats an etwal bud?

I guess spamming her skills is kinda like playing the keyboard or something huh. Interesting parallel.

Etwal is the name of sonas instrument. By spamming do you mean face smashing. Cuase that is very much not like playing piano. I dont mean to come off as loud arrogant or stubborn. Just very passionate about playing as sona and playing the piano so I really speak my mind you know.

redfeenixJul 17, 20161 votes

That's cool bud .... I never thought about playing Sona as being similar to playing an instrument irl. That's cool.

bottledpoopJul 17, 20162 votes

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That's cool bud .... I never thought about playing Sona as being similar to playing an instrument irl. That's cool.

Yeah man you seem pretty cool. Although I disagree with the aproach I can respect you want sona to be in a fair and balanced state.

bottledpoopJul 16, 20161 votes

Just kept reading you wanna make her q hit 1 person???? Dude theres so much wrong with that. It would drastically decrease her survivability and shed have much less impact in fights. I completely disagree with this point to. That like a core mechanic and you just wanna make it 50 percent worse. Says here you wanna make her E movespeed decay AND decrease the the move speed time. Dude just pick one. That would make it totally useless. Now I know you dont mean that they should do ALL these things to sona and im going to hope that count each of these as separate solutions.

redfeenixJul 16, 20161 votes

Yeah these are just some possible suggestions

bottledpoopJul 16, 20161 votes

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Yeah these are just some possible suggestions

Ok

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