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Can we admit that Sona is just an extremely poorly designed champion?

Report Team GG·1/4/2015, 2:56:56 AM·7 votes·3,430 views

She's jack of all trades, master of none.

The issue is that when you stop mana gating Sona she becomes broken. She's easily the most broken champion in ARAM because there is no counter to infinite heals without cost.

She has the skills necessary to suit multiple playstyles. She all ins just as well as she plays the heal and poke game. Her heal and poke game is arguably the best right now and she's just annoying as hell to deal with no matter the game mode whether it's ARAM or SR.

But she's got a solid engage/teamfighting skills as well carrying with her an AoE ult.

The problem with sona is that she's the master of none, but that doesn't mean she isn't 80% as good as a teamfight support and it doesn't mean she isn't 80% as good as a sustain/heal support.

Riot, you need to punch Sona in the face right now. Cripple her healing and put it all in a shield. There... Now you've got Sona as a champion who really is about poking and trading.

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Sooko1/4/2015, 8:00:39 PM6 votes

Worst design? Sona? Really?

Tryndamere

Miku Hime sama1/4/2015, 5:11:35 PM6 votes

The only poorly designed things about Sona are the crappy rework and the terrible in-game model changes. Ezreal and Shurelia gave birth to a beautiful songstress with a truly innovative kit. It was Fearless who bastardized that and ruined her.

Pika3101/4/2015, 3:39:19 PM5 votes

There's so much propaganda and so many transparent lies here, I'm about to vomit from the sheer immoral dishonesty of it all.

The issue is that **when you stop mana gating Sona **she becomes broken. She's easily the most broken champion in ARAM because there is no counter to infinite heals without cost.

Sona's heal is the most expensive in the game and her base mana is considerably low, she's already been mana gated REALLY hard.

Her heal and poke game is arguably the best right now

Sona has the lowest base damage of the entire support class at 40 base damage on her 1 sole damage ability. This is tied ONLY by Taric's **2 **damage abilities and Leona's Q, whereas Leona still has 2 more damage abilities with higher bases for a total of 3 damage abilities.

Likewise, she has has the weakest heal in the game. At max potential, it only TIES the 2nd lowest heal in the game, but still has lower scaling.

Fact of the matter is, Sona is unworthy of the title "Jack of all Trades." Her actual viability is "Two of all trades," as in the 2 is the weakest card in the deck, because Sona is the weakest in every stat amongst the entire support class. She has the lowest base damage, base healing, base shield, mobility, pre-6 CC and ability range. All whilst being in the top 5 squishiest champions in the whole game. Fearless has gutted her into oblivion, she's mathematically the weakest champion in all of League.

RedCyclone1/4/2015, 4:33:06 AM4 votes

I will agree with you but for the wrong reasons

Riot have nip-tucked her so much over the years, this SUPPORT champion cannot even effectively use a SUPPORT page anymore SHE GOES COMPLETELY AGAINST WHAT SUPPORT IS MEANT TO BE Her base values are CRAZY LOW, but her scaling in especially utility is AMAZING but she can't hold her own in a solo lane against anyone competent enough to recognize they are laning against a champion with no mobility and the health bar of the creeps you have been chewing on for the last 10 mins

Holy god, either make her into a damn support or a AP mid solo laner, it's like old Karma all over again

I will also go to say that I have probably played above 2000 Sona games, about 1/4th of those going midlane alone I somewhat agree with the rework on the part where she scales up, but she relies too much on it

It Is I Emoto1/4/2015, 8:36:09 PM4 votes

i think the title is being misunderstood by most, because we are not talking about hear appearance, buf her poorly designed kit :p

Leblancs Boob1/4/2015, 3:34:02 AM3 votes

I'll agree that she's absurdly broken in ARAM, but she's pretty terrible in SR after all the nerfs she got recently. Literally no reason to play her over Nami or even Raka.

Leti the Yeti1/4/2015, 3:14:45 AM2 votes

Nami

FantasySniper1/5/2015, 6:32:43 PM1 votes

No. Bad ideas.

I think the elegant solution is to make her heal a constant and switch the missing health bonus to the shield. (Credit to Emoto) No more of the excuse "she just sits in lane", meanwhile it's a huge buff to her shield.

ABlueQuaker1/4/2015, 4:43:24 AM1 votes

Nami, Sona and Janna are pretty much interchangeable at the moment. Poke, Heal, Transferable Damage Steroid, Peel. It's what Support-Mages are meant to be. It's honestly a damn shame Lulu got abused as a Solo Lane champion for so long (and subsequently got nerfed) because she'd be good right now.

Cindikle1/4/2015, 8:22:45 PM1 votes

That's part of what maker her Sona.

When you pick her. The enemy doesn't know your playstyle.

You pick Nami, the enemy knows what to expect much more easily.

There is also the fact that people think she needs all AP to work. But they don't understand how her new kit favors getting some tanky stats.

Her scaling isn't that amazing. By building AP means you wont get the most out of your aura's in a teamfight as you'll need to be further back. Building tanky lets you make the most of those auras. People can compare her heal. But when you add on a 5 man shield to the teamfight you'll start to see the difference. As well as the MS boost for those in the front. And a 5 man on hit damage. This is what I meant when i said the enemy doesn't know your playstyle. IMO this is why Ardent Censer is her highest winrate item. Load her team with a 25% AS buff for 6s every 9-6s. (I say 9 instead of 10 because the item comes with 10% CDR).

Also if you want the CC consider Iceborn Gauntlet. It does come with some AP. But it also comes with more CC and armor. It's not like you'll be getting that much AP as a support.

biomaster1/4/2015, 3:13:52 AM1 votes

i agree she does seem to still have that issue where her only flaw is mana hunger, but i dont really like that sheild idea either, it would probably have the same issue i have with rivens dash.