As a level 7 Sona main, this drives me nuts. Why does auto-attacking a plant with Power Chord active consume the Power Chord? Auto-attacking a ward does not consume the Power Chord, so why are plants different? I know this is just a minor thing, but I would appreciate if this change was considered.
RivetAce31 votesSame with 
Q, except it doesn't even give you stacks. And wards do.
Oglaf25 votesSame with 
's Buckler.
To add insult to injury, hitting the plant with it doesn't even count as a kill so it isn't automatically returned to you; you have to go pick it up yourself.
Legacy Hydralpha10 votesPoppy being my main jungler, I can agree with this. Either have it not waste the buckler or have it auto return, which would make jungle clear stronger.
Monsta Moo1 votesWow, that's pretty shitty.
Requiemsfire1 votesYou've no idea how many times I've hit the plant while I was out of range to be moved by the explosion as Poppy when I intended to go over a wall. :l
kolpy9910 votesAlso 
's W passive procs off it
50000000000000009 votesMaybe they're coded as minions
P0IS0N IVY6 votesA plant is a minion.
Malicious Metal5 votesBut...but... Hitting a blast cone with Q2 and blasting the unsuspecting ADC with Q3 is awesome...
Linkedgamer4 votesBut then who was Q1?
RiotMeddler5 votesWe're with you there. Plan is to make plants behave just like wards in terms of which auto attack enhancers they do/don't consume. We've adjusted a number of abilities in 6.23 to address that as a result, with some more coming in 6.24 as well. Not certain which patch Sona's in off the top of the head.
Krys Star1 votesSona's Power Chord is also consumed by Teemo's mushrooms. Idk if that's ever been fixed as I haven't played her in a long while, especially against a Teemo.
LankPants1 votesYou might want to be careful of Nasus when you do that, I'm not sure if him stacking plants would be a great thing.
Veraska1 votesAny thoughts on making Kleds W behave a similar way? It feels really bad to waste your w proc on a plant or wards
DeathBurst1 votesNot on wards, no (except blue). It can be the difference between destroying it before it fades to invisibility or not. Or between destroying a control ward fast enough to get back to safety and dying for 75g and feeling stupid.
iLLp3 votessame with tf gold card
Spoofghoul3 voteswhy are wards different i think wards should also consume powerchord
Fairyfleur2 voteswhy should they?
Battlecast Sona1 votesyou clearly don't play Sona. This would (and did) hurt her mana pool a LOT in the early part of the game, because you have to cast 3 spells for power chord and 2 of her spells have fairly prohibitive mana costs. The ward functionality change basically allowed her to actually play as a support without kneecapping herself... why would you want that back?
Weathered2 votesIf it doesn't use the chord on wards, it shouldn't on plants. Good catch +1
Primaquarius2 votesAs another Sona main (Tier 6, 2 Tier 7 tokens), I wish I could upvote this more than once
khorney2 votesDude deal with it. Are you not aa and power cord is a empower aa
Fairyfleur6 votesThe problem is that you keep the chord forever until you use it, and if you waste it on a plant you have to use three more spells to get it back.
khorney1 votesand are you not aa? since your aa you will use it since her chord is a aa empowered attack..... so tell me why you wouldnt use it?
D Hardy2 votesI promise I would tell you if I could just understand wtf you're saying. But anyways try reading the ability, it probably explicitly states it is consumed when attacking enemy.. "units" or something of that matter. Most definitely intentional.
khorney1 votesokay her power chord is a spellblade effect liek a empowered aa. aa meaning it is a basic attack. plants are a type of jungle
Battlecast Sona2 votesbut if you attack a ward it doesn't use the powerchord. That functionality could be brought over, considering that plants give less gold and exp than wards do, and yet Sona must use resources to break one and not the other (hint: it's not the one that actually gives gold and exp).
Fairyfleur2 votesThank you
ACTI0NBASTARD2 votesAs a Sona main, I absolutely agree. Have my upvote.
WinTheWarOnPants2 votesI agree with OP^. Plants should be removed.
TurquoiseYoshi3 votesThat's definitely not the point of this post.
dunkeroni2 votesYeah, I posted this in bug reports a few days ago. I assume they just forgot about that interaction. Sona's power chord used to proc on wards too. They'll fix it eventually.
Sire Hippington2 votesIit's the same with any other empowered AA. Worst of it is Kled, as he has no controll over his W, if clears a plant he it goes on cd and there is nothing he can do to avoid that.
TyroneWatermelon2 votesMash keyboard 3 more times for another one
D Hardy1 votesI am not positive but I do believe that Power Chord does more damage to the plant than a normal auto correct? If it was someone's intention that they use Power Chord in order to clear a plant faster... say its going to kill your adc, then that would be a very good reason for Power Chord to be consumed. As plants are very similar to minions it only makes sense. Also Power Chord has no effect on a ward while it does affect plants so why would it be consumed by wards.
I assume nasus Q is consumed because nasus has the potential to stack wards, not because nasus Q does more "damage" to wards.
Just in case anyone considered that rebuttal
PickleBabah2 votesI think op means the jungle plants, (vision, knockback, heal) wrong are one shot anyway unless I am mistaken horribly.
Swerd2 votesWhat are you talking about? plants take one hit no matter what.
Chembaron Yamada2 votesHe is talking about Zyra's plants, I guess. Just a misunderstanding.
Yaśuo Main1 votesSo if you can compenstate for Sona, why not do this for Jungle Kled's W?
Seenan1 votesIt also uses up Cait's headshot.
Dengeden1 votesGotta make up for dat dank advantage ranged champions have over melees when it comes to plants.
ReZisT Lust1 votes
WHAT ABOUT LOSING AN EFFECT!!!
BlunterMonk1 votesyeah cause auto attacking an enemy is not auto attacking an enemy.
wards are not enemies, they are wards.
