sona is "balanced" now but this nerf made her unfun to play early

Rothj·12/11/2017, 7:13:27 PM·6 votes·427 views

Hear me out. The way sona is now if you make it to late game, you will be able to hard carry. She is very strong late. Her early is god awful now causing her winrate to balance out.

The problem is there is sometimes nothing you can do early now... you just feed or lose lane, then your team flames you and so on. There's also nothing you can do in some cases if your team is losing early now. You have to just hope you make it to late. I'm diamond 4 currently(was diamond 3 earlier today) and I just got flamed the fuck out of in a game I won. I fed early on then in late game carried but that didn't matter... my team was flaming and raging in post game screen for deaths 1-6.

This FEELS horrible. I just won and played great late game and got flamed for feeding early. It's super hard not to feed early game sona now and it just sucks. I'm tired of being flamed for trying to play the champ to the best of my ability (in fucking diamond 3!). Like, I legit don't know what to do. There are times I try giving up lane and my adc tries to fight, dies, flames. Or we fight under turret get dove, and I get flamed. This is just fucking horrible. Even if I make it to late and we win my team already has in their mind they had to carry me. Getting tired of being told I'm being carried every time I win even if I do great later on.

7 Comments

Daedric Etwahl12/11/2017, 8:20:53 PM3 votes

Dunno why you're getting downvoted. This is exactly my problem with Sona right now. Sure her winrate says she's balanced, but her early game feels absolute trash and you're railroaded into specific things if you want to do anything at all.

If Riot would have taken some of her lategame power, while making her early just a bit more manageable, and still maintain a 50-51% winrate, that would be perfect.

KevinSpacey99912/11/2017, 8:20:42 PM2 votes

What is this "late game" you speak of?

redniwediS12/11/2017, 7:15:09 PM1 votes

Personally I'd like to see the mana cost of her E lowered early on. If you don't want her to be a heal bot early, and you don't want her to have strong poke early, let her have speed.

Penns12/11/2017, 7:18:12 PM1 votes

Thats what always happened back when I played Sona. You survive lane by maxing W so you win because you were the best late game support.

Blu3Jay12/11/2017, 7:28:47 PM1 votes

To be Honest Rothj, your stuck between a rock and a hard place. Heres the main problem (but really theres 2) When you look at sona as a champion, when you get down to it, she an ardent support nothing more. She doesen't have enough early damage to poke out the more engage heavy support like braum or leona. With the nerfs to ardent cencor a couple patches back shes not in a great spot.

The preseason is the time of the season for early game snowballing. Sona cant put on early pressure that well so shes going to fall short.

EpicSaxGandalf12/12/2017, 5:04:16 AM1 votes

why, of all the crazy shit on the board regarding sona, is this getting downvoted? i just dont understand people sometimes.