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Can someone explain to me why Sona was reworked?

Swarovsko·11/19/2017, 9:02:49 AM·2 votes·606 views

I'm an ex sona main and everytime I talk about Sona in the boards there is always someone who's nostalgic about her 4.13 version, but I wasn't playing in s4 (started in s5) so I don't know what they are talking about. I watched some videos and she for sure looked more interesting. I would like to know why she was reworked since I always talk about how shitty she is right now and someone always brings up how cool and unique she was before.

For example https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/Z0aGhBc4-no-fucking-way-ezreal-and-sona-are-playable-against?comment=00010000 here I said she needs a VGU as much as Nunu does because she's the generalist of enchanters and someone mentioned her 4.13 version. This is not the first time it happened.

If her current version is garbage then was her previous one even worse(since it got reworked)? And if it was, why is every Sona main/veteran support player nostalgic about Sona in s4,3?

10 Comments

Pika31011/19/2017, 10:26:27 AM4 votes

Sona was reworked in patch 4.13 solely for the sake of reworking her. Rito didn't have a reason to do so, they just did it. As a matter-of-fact, the purpose for patch 4.13 was to update Sona's visual effects and "Improve her visual clarity." Fearless literally stated that all other changes were secondary, including her "rework" (gutting) and including her model updates (downgrades.) He literally stated and I quote,"The moment we have the new visual effects of her abilities up-to-par, we'll be pushing her to Live, regardless of whether her in-game models or kit are satisfactory or not."

That's literally the reason. I can go into minor details, explain the excuses for specific things, but she was literally changed for the sake of change.

egoSniper11/19/2017, 9:23:14 AM3 votes

I also miss old Sona, because I miss the days where I could take her mid and destroy people.

Truth is she was reworked because a lot of her strength was hidden in strange places your enemies couldn't see (or you, for that matter). She was super tough to balance because of it. She had a bad habit of solo-annihilating lanes when ahead/overtuned, kind of like when people first started playing Brand support, if you remember that.

Now I think the only truly great thing about her kit is the AP scaling on her E. Gotta go fast

zlumpy11/19/2017, 10:07:40 AM2 votes

I miss taking early speed buff so I actually had a correct choice in power cord use early on :(

That and speed boofing old hecarim into unsuspecting people from jungle! Now it just seems like if you aren't maximizing the damage you do while rolling your face on the keyboard then your wrong.

Xion The XIV11/19/2017, 10:22:11 AM1 votes

I used to be a Sona main until the meta shifted and Tank supports became a thing which made Sona worthless since she is like half heal bot support and half poke support. So any other support with a Snare/stun would wait and just grey screen you.

Frankly old sona Sucked. And I mean she sucked hard. Her healing was less then what Taric's heal is now. She was forced to build Full AP if she wanted to do decent heals. People going for the glory days don't even know what they are talking about. When it comes to a sustain support She was always second or even 3rd seat when compared to such as Soraka and Taric. Want to know how bad she truly was at one point it was Viable to buy 25 wards and boots and max E and spam wards in every single bush. Her only good part is she can run away faster back then.

It's the same type of people who are complaining they want old Fiora back. Right now she gets what at lvl 16 85% CD on QWE because of her 40% CD on her ult for other skills. Buy Tear and become a disco ball with all of those spamming colorful auras.

Khristophoros11/19/2017, 2:36:17 PM1 votes

Actually it was because she was braindead as fuck to play.

https://i.imgur.com/SrTtLN4.png

Now she's a little less braindead to play, yay.