Isnt Sonas damage a bit strong for support with her poke?

nothing says the support isn't allowed to deal damage.

Her base stats are trash, making her the squishiest champ in the game running with 325 base ms. Her heal is trash (waiting for the buff to see) she can easily be a free kill, all of this combined with the fact that she has to be in the fight to do damage unlike (poke supports).

and you want her damage to be low?

and NO. Her Q can't remove 50% of an adc champ how did you get upvoted? not just with frost queen, but with any build. Her main burst comes from her passive+lich bane+hextech+luden echo.

Q is trash and just helps to do some damage in early game.

Good thing hexdrinker exists in this game.

You're in for it now OP. Prepare for a dissertation on why Sona is the weakest champion EVAR!!!

Her poke is all she has.

That's it. She is squishy, slow, huge, and lower utility than other backline supports.

Sona's poke damage is high, you're correct.

Her damage needs to be high for the poke to stay relevant.

She needs to deal enough damage to stick through Feast, Vampirism, Doran's Blade, Kindred heal, Relic Shield healing, the Heal summoner spell, and the opposing support's ally sustain.

Oh, and the opponent leveling up too.

Sona has risk associated with her poor. She has the second lowest base health in the game, and the lowest MS.

So yes, if you play badly and push lane against a Sona she can decimate you. That's why you position carefully, use your abilities to zone and harass instead of push or last hit, and blow everything you have on her the second your support locks her down.

Also she's getting her harass nerfed tomorrow. I'm expecting people to max W and build Coin instead on her.

Now imagine fighting full AP Sona in top or mid and you're melee.

Never again will I play passive and let her get her powerspike.

In exchange for such high burst/harass, she has only 1 hard cc in her kit, and that is her ult. Her only other cc is a slow that uses up her passive.

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Her poke is all she has.

besides aoe shields, aoe heal, aoe speedbost, aoe stun, slow, etc. she is possible the champion with the most utility in the game.

Sona is level 9 when the enemy ADC is still level 1? Wow.

Otherwise, you're exaggerating A LOT, even if "just 1 Q" is really Q+AA+Staccato Powerchord and possibly Thunderlord's to boot. (I take Windseeker's, but there are some people who prefer to double down on Sona's trade/harass potential rather than maximizing mid-late game superpowering your allies.)

Of course by that time in the game you can't call something with shorter than AA range "poke", there are lots of people who will be able to engage on her if she gets close enough to Q. It's not a Nidalee spear. And if the enemy isn't level 1 from being AFK for the first 20 minutes, Sona is at least as squishy as that ADC and probably squishier.

they literally just nerfed her Q. They made the passive scaling better, but its still at the risk of getting close.

And not to mention? Sona has good early game because no one has good MR, or health. As you scale into the mid/late game her damage drops off without AP items like lich to support her poke/damage.

Source: look at my masteries, square up nerd

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Once she gets frost queen she almost takes 50% of the ADCs life away with 1 Q.

No. She is fine.

You arent adjusting your Runes/Masteries based on your matchups and counter building.

MercurialScimitar gives you normal damage + MR MR runes will negate her poke.

If you play with 1 static rune page, try building another one with slightly more MR.

The SONA you are against could be packing MagicPen runes and lots of AP runes as well which augments her damage on you to start.

The only way a sona hurts you that much in one burst is if she's neglecting support items in favor of AP items. And at that point she's more along the lines of an AP carry who happens to have only one damaging ability. It SHOULD be hurting and she's just doing what AP carries do which is wreck AD carries.

But hey, at least poke is a really skill requiring skillshot, right ?

how cute, Sona.

On all seriousness that means you touch her and she gets blown up because she's most likely going offensive AP builds.

And MR is your best friend in this case.

I just had a fun time as AP ez support. You haven't seen burst until TLD ez pops his combo in your face, perhaps with bonus ignite and a dash of ADC AA.

Sona is really easy to see coming, ez on the other hand is going to literally blink into your face.