Gonna treat this like I did the Janna issue: Do something about gold gen items

chipndip1·Aug 14, 2017·1 votes·349 views

Either bring the other two closer to coin or push coin back down to the other two. You KNOW something's wrong when SONA of all champs has a 10% Diamond play rate (last time it got that high was when she had like a 60% win rate). Now, of course I'm all happy and smiles for mah home girl Sona, but unfortunately, Sona's place in this game is akin to a bar of sorts: When SHE'S out of line, something bigger is out of line.

This all started when coin's busted gold gen started getting abused by Consensual Clown 1 (as far as Sona players go, anyway), and yet Riot nerfs the mana regen and not the gold gen. Do something to even out the gold gen between items or we're not gonna see the end of this until Riot guts every old-school enchanter in bot lane.

4 Comments

JbelsAug 14, 20171 votes

It's honestly a matter of Supports giving too much to carries. They need that gold gen, but the itemization for supports is so fucked (Looking at you, Ardent).Supports need to give defensive buffs, like heals, shields, or movement speed boosts / defensive stat raises. When you have champions like Sona or Janna (especially Janna) who give metric ass tons of shielding/healing, while granting stat checking to their ADC, it's stupid. Like I said, ESPECIALLY Janna, who gives her ADC so much free damage with Ardent it's stupid

chipndip1Aug 14, 20171 votes

If all the viable item picks are defensive picks, we'll just end up where we were when everyone spammed Redemption/Locket, just in another form.

Ardent is out of hand because it got overtuned back when Redemption/Locket were the main culprits. Ardent was overbuffed to catch up to something that was blatantly op, but THAT got nerfed, so now Ardent's just op by itself. Riot's going to remove the scaling power it was given from before, but the base power will be increased in comparison to what it was before the scaling power was introduced. The REAL issue is that any support that takes coin gets gold way faster, in order to scale way sooner, than any support that doesn't take coin. We can't just blindly blame Censer for everything. Coin is the primary catalyst of our issues, especially when the other two items don't give even half as much gold as coin does.

RedCycloneAug 15, 20171 votes

Sona's newfound popularity doesn't come from Coin, it comes from Ardent and how they buffed it like 6 times in a row

Coin 100% is bullshit in it's current state though, there is no reason why the least riskiest way of getting gold from the gold items generates the most gold

chipndip1Aug 15, 20171 votes

Even with Ardent, Sona had a 52% win rate before coin. She's at 53% now, but on a steadily growing play rate. We've left the point where just mains were playing her. People are steadily starting to abuse coin on Sona.