She has one of the worst early games now, literally everyone and everything kills her. In diamond she has one of the worst win rates out of all champions. The mana nerf made it so you just run out of mana in lane and can just basically do nothing. You have to just sit and let your team carry you to late game. Pre nerf you could actually do stuff as sona and feel useful. Now it's stall to late while your team flames you.
I'm not gonna pretend like she didn't need a little toning down, I suppose, but as you said, the early game you just feel actually worthless. I'm especially nervous about the upcoming Manaflow Band nerf. I understand that many champions were abusing it to have basically infinite mana in lane, but as a Sona player, since the Q mana nerf, I heavily rely on Manaflow to have ANY mana in lane anymore. It's frustrating and feels awful.
I really wish Riot would give her back just a little something to make lane phase a little less terrible for her player, as this nerfing of her runes after several harsh nerfs to her might be really rough for her.
