About the Sona "buffs"...

It Is I Emoto··3 votes·1,080 views
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Sometimes when the skins team takes on large projects, they take a 'snapshot' of the champion's files to work on, including certain hard-coded values like base stats and movement speeds. Unfortunately, when the team finally finishes and implements the skin, those old values can be reintroduced to the game, overwriting any recent balance changes made. There have been a few cases of this happening in the past (Kayle's attack speed per level when we released Riot Kayle, Galio's Q when we released Gatekeeper Galio, etc), but rarely with so many 'reverts' to the champion. Unfortunately, Sona went through a small update during the time we were working on her skin, so she's gone back to all of her old base stats pre-champion update. While we considered shipping 5.3 with Sona disabled, we don't think the full extent of these changes merits taking her away from so many, so we're just fully communicating what's happened while we work on a bugfix as soon as possible.

They were done because of a bug and Riot couldn't fix it till the patch update. Every player who said; "they gonna buff Sona, stop complaining", their argument is now invalid.

Well then, you can complain me being a annoying, delusional Sona main for saying the truth, but this is now a big slap to everyone who thought that they gonna really "buff" Sona.

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Diostukos4 votes

Tfw the only way Sona could get buffs is through a bug. Hue

Pika3102 votes

Also notice that there is no documentation of Fearless ever having nerfed Sona's AD by -2. Apparently he did this in secret, just the same as when he nerfed Hymn's range by -50 and -100 in secret. I cringe to think what else he's nerfed on Sona in secret.

Is Hymn's range still the same? Does Crescendo truly have the same hitbox? Everything is in question now.

It Is I Emoto3 votes

Yeah.. I mean, why even reducing 2 base damage? like really? What if they've changed her AD scaling too.. though fearless did alot of things that were disappointing, mostly the Q "bug" but who knows. One thing is sure; riot does not want that Sona is actually any useful except her ult..

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