Can you please make Sona more cost effective

only zhule··2 votes·324 views

With the pace of the game having gotten into overdrive; many champions that where amazing in the late game, due to being multi item dependent, are now simply not stacking up in the early to mid game. One of these champions in Sona. Now i love the character to death, but damn if she isn't one of the slowest champions to hit a power spike. Remember that this is a champion that has no pre-6 hard CC, is one of the slowest (low movement speed) champions in the game, and only has one offensive ability to do damage with. This is not to say that she doesn't have an amazing late game power level what with her built in 25-40% CDR on top of what she can get off items. But this is kind of the issue, Sona is so item dependent in the early game. Most champions don't really hit a power spike till they get their first big item, i get that. Sona on the other hand is often on the back foot until she can cobble together 3-4 items. Let me break that down, you need at least 35% cdr to really start slinging spells fast enough to keep up with the rest of the roster, to keep up your mana base (what with all those spells you're throwing) you also need something around 200% mana regen. BUT even with all that you will often run out of mana because your pool simply isn't large enough to sustain the 12-30 spells cast per minute you need to be outputting to keep your allies healed up, keep your team moving fast, and output half decent damage. So that's probably 2-3 items for the CDR, another item on top of that to get the mana regen, and one more item item 3070 to get the mana pool you need to stay in a prolonged fight. Bare bones you are looking at approx 5K to get everything and another 2-3K to upgrade base level items like item 3114 into item 3107 and/or item 3504 .

TL:DR: Sona needs about 5-7k gold spent on 4 items + her passive CDR before she finally stops casting too slow or running oom half way through a fight.

(items assumed you buy bare minimum are item 2301 + item 3158 + item 3114 + item 3070 . )

9 Comments

Existential Bard3 votes

I disagree with your post. Sona has the hightest winrate right now in the game. She actually is getting nerfs.

Daddy Ants1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Existential Bard,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=f5bM0E40,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2017-12-02T21:16:50.609+0000)

I disagree with your post. Sona has the hightest winrate right now in the game. She actually is getting nerfs.

No she doesn't have the highest winrate in the game.

Nor does she have the highest winrate for support.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#/roleSort=Support&sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend?roleSort=Support&sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend

http://champion.gg/statistics/#/roleSort=Support&sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend?roleSort=&sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend

Existential Bard1 votes

Second highest

JulieJuice1 votes

they don't wanna make her more efficient cuz they're too busy jacking up the cost of her Q (while halving the dmg.)

[sg-lulu]

k wìx1 votes

Uh, no. Sona is terrifying.** It's rare that I disagree with a post so much. **

only zhule1 votes

[{quoted}](name=k wìx,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=f5bM0E40,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2017-12-02T23:12:20.237+0000)

Uh, no. Sona is terrifying.** It's rare that I disagree with a post so much. **

Once you get her up and running, she is a force to fear (usually). That said, DAMN you need a lot of cash to get her up and running. Like basically every other support can do their job without worrying very much about CDR or mana issues, but sona just runs OOM after a few trades.

Metal Janna1 votes

You run out of mana in this meta? Maybe you should use your abilities more conservatively. I used to get that problem on my support Orianna, back when out-sustaining was a thing, but ever since 7.22 out-sustaining is a losing strategy. Everyone does way too much damage to shield and harass is now burst (and using it will force an early all-in, as they're afraid of being poked to death by the support). So I transitioned from harass/sustain Ori to burst damage and CC Ori. Been having much better luck with Electrocute, Scorch and Absolute Focus than Guardian, Scorch and Manaflow Band. With these runes, i'm basically Lux.

chipndip11 votes

{quoted}

You run out of mana in this meta? Maybe you should use your abilities more conservatively.

This is how you know someone doesn't play Sona.

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