When do we admit that Sona's design is just blatantly awful?
It says something when a champ can have a 54% win rate in Diamond elo and people STILL think she's hot garbage and needs buffs.
Idk how many times I need to say it: Sona's design is bad. BAD. Character? Cool. Game play? Atrocious. There isn't any. Perception of her abilities in the game are probably worse than even Teemo. It leads to a major lack of satisfaction and understanding in what she does and how she's contributing to the team. There's no defining high points to what she does unless she's landing R. Outside of that, she's hardly even noticeable.
I'm not saying she's weak. If we limit our focus to simply solo queue (no organized play of any kind involved), she isn't weak. Actually, a lot of the time she's blatantly overtuned for solo queue, just to keep her players from rioting. I'm just saying her game play is garbage. What type of champion in the game makes you just feel like a useless wet noodle 85% of the time, even when you're not? Does that not say anything to people, or are there so few people that care that are left that no one bothers to bug Riot about like all these fucking Karma threads? If Karma's got a kit problem, Sona's got a worse one. At least Karma's issue is that it's bland, not that it's perceived as blatantly useless at almost all times.
What will it take to get a red to respond on this? I used to try to bring it up more often but I pretty much gave up on trying. I got the urge to try again after someone begged me not to play her...when she has a 54% Diamond win rate.
Most of his abilities are just buffs, the rest are an attack that doesn't even need to be landed as a skillshot and the other is a free heal.
- lost all gameplay identity. Is the definition of generic. No more Ally links or Jebaiting people with last minute shieldbomb,nukes and heals ala Martyr from Heroes of Newerth (anyone remember that dude?)
- Has the answer to everything and by far the most flexible support imo. bar none of the best supports in the game and this showed best during her reign of terror in the solo lanes. Also in my personal opinion Polymorph should not be a point n click. Jesus christ that ability is aids to play against. anyways her strengths should be narrowed. Why does E grant vision? Why does Poly Morph double as a ally castable speedup skill? Why not put THAT on "HELP PIX!" and have Poly be purely a enemy transmog spell? Should Lulu really give bonus AS when Help Pix already gives bonus damage on basic attacks? Lulu just does way too much....
shield it to win it gameplay. ultra frustrating design that wants nothing more than to humiliate and blue ball the enemy repeatedly. Janna E is like the epitome of whats wrong with current Enchanter design imo (spam one Heal/Shield ability on your carry off cooldown to auto win which is further reinforced by the DESIGN of enchanter items which all increase shield and heal amounts). its like the antithesis of
who rely on careful timing,spacing and mechanics to keep their carry alive and kicking in the face of danger. Yeah fuck that shit. Im just gonna give my guy twice his HP in temporary health.
- Support Udyr made for scaling. Once the
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+ rank 3 ult + 45% CDR kicks in hoo baby are you gonna see the magic happen. She heals,she slows,she has exhaust as a basic ability,she amplifies damage, she stuns. Swiss Army knives of supports. Interesting thing here is that she shares a LOT of qualities with Nami however I think is far more interesting to play both with and against than Sona.
- death of the laning phase. Without GWounds to stop her she feels utterly unfair and OP. AGAINST GWounds she feels neutered and useless. Not really a in between but then again thats kinda the entire design of G-Wounds and why Riot should just remove it and balance healing properly. OH also playing around her global R is ultra frustrating gameplay. They should honestly just yoink Wish from her kit and give her Kindred's R when Kindred eventually gets reworked. I think Kindred's no-death field makes 10X more sense on the pacifist goat. On a side note anyone else find is annoying that the counterplay to Soraka is to focus her BEFORE her allys BUT everything in her kit is dedicated to peeling herself ?