Buff Sona's Base Stats A Bit?

Room 36·11/16/2019, 4:18:42 AM·10 votes·6,224 views

If you've ever played Sona, I'm sure you can recall at least a few times where you're laning with your adc or teamfighting, everything's going smoothly, and all of the sudden you're left with no mana and completely useless to your team.

I get that she's a versatile support with heavy utility and burst damage, and needs her low base stats for countering purposes. However, I don't think it's fair on her part that Yuumi, a champion that is literally untargetable, gets essentially the same health stats and higher mana stats than Sona gets. And Yuumi's mana issues aren't nearly as severe as Sona's, which is ironic. Because unlike Yuumi, Sona risks herself getting dived when she pokes with her q, and if she gets caught out in the slightest she's almost guaranteed dead because her health is so low.

And yes, I am aware that you can increase her mana via item 3285 item 3040 item 3030 etc. But by investing your gold in ap items you miss out on crucial support items like item 3107 item 3504 item 3174 .

18 Comments

Pika31011/16/2019, 7:42:52 AM6 votes

All of these problems could've been avoided if patch 4.13 were cancelled, like the entire community told Rito to do. Or if it would be reverted, like countless have demanded for over 5 years now. Every iteration of her since, has proven to be less-enjoyable, less-balanceable, less skill-expressive & less-impactful than the previous and created new problems she didn't have, without ever fixing her existing ones.

You can't balance a champion that has Urf mechanics inherently built into their actual kit, especially not with number buffs. Sona will not be an acceptable character until she gets 1 of 2 things:

  1. A full revert to her original pre-4.13 kit. Then maybe some tweaks, buffs or whatever, go from there and see what needs updating.
  2. A Sion-sized rework of the character from the ground up. Just make her something that doesn't remotely resemble what she is now.

Given Rito's unjustifiable hatred of REAL auras, (not lingering actives, which are NOT auras) as the only gaming company in the entire industry with this unjustified hate; we're more likely to see that latter.

RyzeRework11/16/2019, 6:18:18 AM4 votes

Tear is pretty standard for sona. She has team wide buffs so its healthier she cant spam abilities all day. They are also on a pretty short cd especially lategame. I would say her mana problems are justified for how insane she can be. Shes like the Kayle of supports

Caitlyn FTW11/16/2019, 8:15:29 AM4 votes

Let me tell you this, if they buff sona she's gonna be the best support period. She's the definition of a stat check champion along side Tryndamere MasterYi Udyr Volibear Garen and many other trash champions

Krys Star11/16/2019, 7:35:41 PM3 votes

Meddler's already said he will never allow Sona to be the least bit viable if he had a choice in the matter. Which raises the question of why not just rework her if you refuse to try to balance her. I miss when Morello was lead balance, because he cared about every champion being as equal as possible, while Meddler just plays favorites lol...

Ionian Vulpix11/16/2019, 12:40:06 PM2 votes

They really need an item with mana for supports. They have a lot of regen, but no actual base.

SiG DxD11/16/2019, 2:17:16 PM1 votes

dont want sona/taric back

thx

Linna Excel11/16/2019, 5:28:53 AM1 votes

Manaflow band helps. Start a item 3070 ASAP, you don't have to finish it first. Once you get a item 3114 you really shouldn't see mana issues. Sona has pretty decent poke with her Q so AP items don't really hurt her and they help scale her heal some.

Daddy Ants11/17/2019, 1:11:00 PM1 votes

Sona doesn't need buffs.

This meta consists of Blitzcrank Nautilus Leona Pyke AKA champions who shit on Sona.

WoonStruck11/16/2019, 7:27:04 AM1 votes

Remember: Just because you buy tear doesn't mean you have to finish it. Its EXTREMELY cost efficient, and raises the efficiency of mana in general with its mana cost reduction.

If you don't plan on going high AP/mana, you can just sell it later.

Buying it on Taric isn't uncommon, for example. But sometimes he'll go chalice or catalyst instead, or even at the same time lol. One should be plenty for Sona though.

DeathBurst11/16/2019, 8:09:05 AM1 votes

Yeah, you're building her wrong if you think she has burst but not enough mana. With Censer/Athenes/Redemptiion + Manaflow Band, she has enough Mana Regen to cast her heal on CD without ever using mana.

Daddy Ants11/16/2019, 11:14:08 AM1 votes

Sona's meant to be mana starved.

Illidan is HOT11/16/2019, 12:48:51 PM1 votes

Buffing her base stats will remove one of her intended weaknesses and make her completely broken. The only buff Sona could use is a (partial) revert of her most recent E AP ratio nerf. It used to give 6% bonus movement speed per 100 AP, now it's only 3% per 100 AP. This ability feels useless unless Sona has shitloads of AP. If they reverted it to atleast 4-4.5% per 100 AP up from 3%, Sona would feel much better to play.