Uh, so this sona and taric duo in bot lane, what makes it so effective?

Insane levels of sustain (both champs can shield+heal each other), great poke&punish (Taric does his stun thing and it comes from two directions, he gets to smack you, full AP Sona gets to Q you for massive damage), and transitions into a normal lane mid to late.

The fact that sona is a glasscannon and taric can make her invincible for a few seconds come to mind..

I already posted this in another thread so i'll simply copy my own conclusion (TL;DR - damage creep):

It literally comes down to the question "why should i pick a "true" damage dealer if everyone explodes anyway?". In current state of game Sona's damage is simply just enough to get the job done and thats because there is to much damage both direct and indirect flying around. What do i mean by indirect damage? All those runes like comet, items like luden's echo, random aoe spells that just happens to hit you and so on. It may seem like its not that much but in those few seconds of teamfight they can really stack up. On top of that Sona/Taric combo is great at dealing with this indirect damage. Both of them are aoe healers, this allows them to simply ignore big chunk of damage on the battlefield. Another point is CC. With so much damage even singe stun can be a death sentence and Sona/Taric combo brings 2 aoe stuns that can be used to lock down big part of enemy team. Last point is Taric's ultimate. In a world where everyone explodes in 3s a potential teamwide 2.5s of immortality is like additional life and Sona's speed aura makes it even harder to disengage from this.

All this is quite ironic. Extreme high damage metas don't favour damage dealers. If everything deals tones of damage anyway why not pick someone who does other thing on top of that.

And before someone answers that "uhhhhh... buuuuut Sona cant one shot an adc early in game". Thats true but we need to remember that Sona has one of the easiest auto targeted poke abilities in game. Simply keeping enemy adc at 50% hp all the time, while at the same time keeping herself at 100% with heals, puts enemy adc in danger. One decent combo, one decent gank, few more hits and he/she risks one way ticket to the fountain. This usualy leads to enemy adc sitting under tower or recalling every 30s, wasting tones of farm. And as we all know farmless adc is the saddest and salties thing one can find on Summoners Rift.

Probably because most marksmen don't buy an executioner's calling or a mercurial scimitar. Then there's the fact meta-maniacs panic when going against something insanely off-meta lol.

It's effective because people won't adapt to it. or and other long range poke duos destroy this combo. Deny Sona her Klepto and spell thief's procs and the y fall apart.

What I want to know as an aram main is who gets the CS?

spammable healing, a strong cc ult and a strong invuln ult.

well for one thing full ap sona melts adcs because riot nerfed all her utility and gave her nothing back but damage and taric's ult is just really good with teams who are smart enough to use it.Also there is so much damage in this game adcs become redundant.

They both excel when they have a partner.

It's the late game sustain tbh. I did it and my team was behind, but in a teamfight my team dropped to near dead and went back to near full HP extremely quickly so many times in a row that the enemy crumbled.

It's just a good duo team that wrecks people, but it is far from the only one.

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That is just a few examples.

All are equally good in my opinion for different reasons.

Edit:

How did I leave out and ? That duo is sick AF.

So imagine you have a big wall, and when you damage it, it just heals itself, and just gains more Armor, which not only makes demolishing it harder, but somehow let’s it fight back, which let’s it heal more.

Ok now imagine that Voodo wall has a professional builder with a glock protecting it, healing it faster, and shooting at you whenever the manic gets the chance, AND you can’t kill him unless you get through the wall.

And finally, imagine both the wall and the gun guy have the ability to make everyone around them harder to kill and better at killing you.

Just played around 20 games using this duo. Biggest strength comes from abusing and . Sona usually can gain ~2000 gold at ~23 min from , with an additional ~1000 from . This plus Klep is ~3500 gold at just 23 minutes. Taric is also strong with items like early since this strategy allows him to CS and buys key items early. Both excel at teamfighting which is usually how I close out games mid/late.

However, I felt laning phase is usually pretty rough if enemy has hard engage and cc like . Also escaping from ganks is pretty difficult before level 6. This strategy relies on teammates as Sona's damage isn't super high, so if teammates pick low damage champions as well it's difficult to win fights.

I think the strategy is going to need a nerf, but I'd like too see it remain viable.

Enchanters being way too effective to the point they barely need an ADC? I kind of have a feeling of deja-vu...

Dunno, only faces it once and i ate them. Didnt feel strong at all to face.

Income and sustain. Thats it. Has nothing to do with the damage like alot are saying, it has to do with the fact outside of the opening 6 levels its impossible to kill this duo, along with the fact they get insane gold income for just sitting in lane.

Bruisers are broken, pick these 2 bottom lane and win late game.