Please revert the Sona nerfs.

Diostukos·11/18/2014, 6:34:17 PM·6 votes·666 views

As insignificant as they may seem when you look at it on paper; it's actually pretty noticeable.

Hymn of Valor (Q) aura on hit magic damage AP ratio lowered to .2 from .25 Aria of Perseverance (W) healing now [increased by .5% per 1% missing HP] from [1% per 1% missing HP]. Aria of Perseverance (W) base heal increased to 30/50/70/90/110 from 25/45/65/85/105

Now I don't really care about the Q ratio being lowered yet again, but the W nerfs are going to hurt both her early and mid game. I played a match on the pbe and went Sona support with Vayne adc, versus a Kalista+Galio bot lane. They made mistakes and we easily killed them. I saved enough gold and when I backed got a needlessly large rod. Even with 80+ ap in just the first few minutes of the match my heals felt much much weaker. Even when Vayne was low it was hardly noticeable. Now I understand she shouldn't have Soraka levels of sustain, since Soraka has to use her own health to sustain her allies, but these changes are really going to affect Sona, most likely outside of lane.

Wasn't the point of Sona's rework to make her abilities more noticeable but with the cooldown tradeoffs? 1% per 1% missing hp was cut by half; clutch heals are going to be harder and a base heal increase of 5 isn't going to make up for that. I would honestly prefer nerfing the base heal in order to keep the current %health ratio.

7 Comments

Diostukos11/19/2014, 2:27:34 AM4 votes

Unfortunate that this had to be downvoted and not actually discussed.

Pika31011/19/2014, 12:41:39 AM3 votes

Actually, the entire point of the rework was the new visual effects. They wanted Sona's abilities to be flashier and more visually noticeable. Riot doesn't actually care about her gamestate, hence why they blatantly nerfed her entire kit. Likewise, they don't care about the quality of her in-game models either, hence why the skins team ceased work on her and left the VU incomplete.

This new nerf is the balance team's anti-Sona bias saying, "We don't want this champion to exist, why do you continue to insist on playing her after we nerfed EVERYTHING? Fine, we'll give her another nerf, now let her die already."

Diostukos11/18/2014, 10:57:59 PM1 votes

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Diostukos11/19/2014, 3:41:47 AM1 votes

I have noticed less people posting on the forums.

I guess they mostly look at reddit now? . _.